The Curse continues...

Someone pissed someone off when they build Citi Field, and that someone is exacting revenge.

In a season plagued by injury and disappointment, David Wright is the latest Mets player to go down. Wright left Saturday afternoon's 5-4 loss to the Giants in the bottom of the fourth inning after being hit in the helmet with a pitch by Matt Cain. He was in an 0-2 count when Cain's four-seamer struck the left side of his helmet by his ear, and the infielder immediately fell down on his stomach, where he lay motionless until team trainers rushed out. After several minutes, Wright was flipped over and was able to walk off the field under his own power, albeit with some help from the trainers.

Closeup angles of Cain showed him talking with catcher Brian Schneider while Wright was being examined on the field. "He just asked how David was, asked if he was doing all right," Schneider said. "And I didn't have an answer for him."

"I've known Matt Cain for a long time," said Jeff Francoeur, who spoke briefly to Cain during the inning and also spoke with Wright before he was transported to the hospital. "Obviously, I'm sure that no one feels worse than he does."

Following the game, a serious and somber Cain told reporters it was nice to see Wright be able to walk off the field. "Hopefully he'll be all right," Cain said. "I'll try to see if I can get a hold of him [Sunday] or see him on the field."

"I don't know what else we can go through, to be honest with you," said starter Johan Santana, who admitted to retaliating by throwing behind Pablo Sandoval in the seventh inning. "Throughout this whole season, it's been crazy for us, and it's not good to see [Wright] going down that way. It's not good at all."

The Mets lost to the Giants in 10 innings today, by the score of 5-4, in what's becoming an oh-too-familiar blown game by K-Rod.

Wright was brought to the Hospital For Special Surgery about 50 minutes after being hit. A CT Scan was negative, but Wright did suffer a concussion and will remain in the hospital overnight for observation.

So now it's official, the Mets core has been peeled. Wright; Beltran; Delgado; Reyes - all now injured this season. It is not yet known how long Wright will be out, but maybe the Mets will put him on a plane to Colorado..... - Paul Leume

Paul Leume is a MLB columnist from Montreal, Canada. Paul, a one-time beat writer covering the Montreal Expos for the Montreal Gazette is a proud grandfather of 3 girls and now spends his time offering his thoughts and prospective on Major League Baseball on a variety of blogs and websites throughout Al Gore’s internet.