And now the Mets may have lost Ramon Castro, too. Their understudy catcher, who was to have played for the Brooklyn Cyclones Monday night as part of his rehabilitation from a rib cage muscle strain that necessitated his DL assignment, apparently injured his left knee stretching before the Cyclones were to play the Staten Island Yankees.
The club, awaiting word on Castro's condition, was uncertain as of 9:30 p.m. about the nature and severity of the injury. It said only that Castro felt pain in his knee as he did normal, pregame stretching, alerted the trainers and was taken to the Mets' midtown hospital for examination.