David Wright is likely headed to the DL. (Brad Barr-USA TODAY Sports)
New York third baseman David Wright is likely headed to the disabled list with a pulled right hamstring, according to ESPN.com.
The Mets captain suffered the injury while sliding into second base on a stolen base attempt late in Tuesday night’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Wright was scheduled to undergo an MRI on Wednesday to determine the extent of the injury.
Wright said after the game he didn’t strain the hamstring as badly as he did in August 2013, when he tried playing through a sore right hamstring before suffering a Grade 3 strain while legging out an infield hit. That injury cost Wright seven weeks.
“A couple of feet before the bag I just felt my hamstring grab,” Wright said Tuesday night. “I thought it might be something that I could stretch out a little bit. But then I took a couple of secondary leads and just realized that if the ball was put in play I wouldn’t have been able to do anything positive, that’s for sure. It took a couple a pitches and it didn’t get any better. That’s when I thought I’d rather say something and hopefully catch this thing before I make the same mistake I made a couple of years ago, when I tried to play through it and made it worse.
“Anytime you feel something like that, you hope that it goes away. And this just didn’t go away.”
