David Wright offered to sit Sunday, returns loyalty with a hit

David Wright told Terry Collins before Game 2 of the NLCS that he was healthy but that Collins could sit him if he wanted to (Oct. 19).

“I said, ‘How you doing?’”, Collins recalled. “He said, ‘OK.’ I said, ‘Are you stiff?’ He said, ‘Terry, it was 35 degrees out there, we’re all stiff.’ I said, ‘No, how are you?’ He said, ‘I’m fine.’ He said, ‘Now I suck, but I’m fine.’ And that’s him. … He’s a baseball player. He’s been in this environment a long time. I just keep saying, ‘Hey, look, keep putting those good at-bats on because it’s going to happen.’ He’s just too good a player.”

In the first inning of Game 2, during which he went 1-for-4, Wright doubled over Dexter Fowler’s head in center field to drive in Curtis Granderson and give the Mets a 1-0 lead. He then scored on Daniel Murphy‘s two-run homer.

Prior to his hit on Sunday night, Wright had gone 1-for-19 in the postseason with eight strikeouts and six walks. His lone hit before Sunday was a two-run single in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Dodgers.

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