QUEENS, NY — Brett Baty is day-to-day with right groin tightness. The New York Mets’ third baseman left Sunday’s 9-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays after chasing a foul ball, Baty and manager Carlos Mendoza confirmed after the game.
Baty was removed after the top of the seventh inning. Ronny Mauricio pinch hit for him in the bottom of the inning and took over Baty’s defensive responsibilities at third base.
“I was going for a foul ball that was flared towards the tarp,” Baty said. “And I kind of like stepped over with my left kind of backwards, and I just felt just a little tightness in my right joint.”
Neither Baty nor Mendoza seemed concerned. The Mets have an off day on Monday, and both said that they would see how Baty is feeling. Mendoza, after speaking with the trainers, told reporters that the team was not yet planning on doing X-rays or an MRI.
Baty said he has experienced this type of injury before, and that he responded well to treatment when it happened.
“I was trying to steal a base,” he recalled about his previous groin injury. “And it was actually my other side, but it was a similar motion, like stepping over and, like, pushing off. And I think that was two years ago.”
The Mets are back in action on the road Tuesday, when they face the Atlanta Braves.
