Captain scripts Wright ending with walk-off hit

NEW YORK — Had David Wright glanced into the Citi Field dugout, or at third-base coach Tim Teufel down the line, he would have seen that his superiors were freeing him to swing away. The Mets were stuck in a tie game, had been for most of Saturday, but Wright was batting with a 3-0 count and every base occupied. Fearing the take sign, he just didn’t look.

Wright was also stuck in 3-for-31 slump, striking out roughly one out of every two trips to the plate, even eliciting a smattering of boos following his third at-bat Saturday. He knew that his best chance to shove all of that away, if only for a day, might well be a 3-0 fastball. So Wright dug in, leering at the pitcher, then laced Michael Blazek’s obligatory heater into right-center field for a walk-off single.

“It seems like those situations find you when you’re not feeling your best at the plate,” Wright said in the aftermath of the Mets’ 5-4 win over the Brewers. “Fortunately, for me, I was able to lock it in for one at-bat.”

To say that Wright has not been feeling his best would be a tremendous understatement. Statistically the most accomplished hitter in franchise history, Wright has been a shell of his former self …

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