The Mets turned to the bench for their catcher Thursday and ended up with Johnny Bench.
Tomas Nido barely hit enough to stay in the major leagues last season, but a winter spent working with a private swing instructor may have been the best $25,000 the Mets backup catcher ever spent.
Nido smashed two home runs, including his first career grand slam, in an 8-2 pounding of the Nationals at Citi Field that gave the Mets two straight victories and a split in the four-game series.
It wasn’t all smiles with the Mets, who lost Jeff McNeil in the first inning after he crashed into the left-field fence while making a catch. McNeil departed the field on a cart and underwent a knee X-ray that was negative. McNeil has a bone contusion and is day-to-day.
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