With the way the Mets’ luck has been going, the fact Ike Davis expects to come off the disabled list on May 26 can be considered a victory.
“The biggest thing when it first happened was that it didn’t feel like a sprained ankle,” said Davis, who got hurt colliding with David Wright when both tried to field a popup in front of the pitcher’s mound in Colorado last Tuesday.
“I felt it in the back of my ankle, so the only part [I was worried about] was that I hoped I didn’t do anything to my Achilles.”]
Instead, it turned out to be a sprained ankle, and the first baseman will be in Port St. Lucie today to rehab the injury.
“I’m walking a lot better now,” said Davis, who had been in a protective boot but has changed to an air cast.
“I just want to get some [at-bats] and then get back here. I’ll be fine.”
The Mets will feel Davis’ absence even more now that Wright is out with a back injury.
“We both called it,” Davis said of the play during which he got hurt. “It would have been better if I had heard him yelling.”
Instead, now the Mets are without both sluggers in the middle of their lineup. Davis is hitting .302 with seven homers and 25 RBIs.
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After the game, the Mets made several roster moves. Infielder Chin-lung Hu was outrighted to Buffalo and right-hander Ryota Igarashi was optioned to Buffalo, while infielder Ruben Tejada was called up from Buffalo and right-hander Pedro Beato was activated from the disabled list.
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Jenrry Mejia and Chris Young both went under the knife yesterday at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and general manager Sandy Alderson said both surgeries went well. Mejia’s elbow showed no further damage other than the tear that caused him to undergo Tommy John surgery.
“It was a clean tear,” Alderson said. “The elbow looked clean other than that injury. It was an excellent result.”
As for Young, the right-hander had surgery on his right shoulder to repair a tear of the anterior capsule and there was also fraying of the rotator cuff. But Alderson said that fraying did not appear to be “terribly significant.”