KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Second baseman Neil Walker had two items hanging in his locker in the visitors’ clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium after the New York Mets completed their season-opening series with a 2-0 win against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday.
One was a Pittsburgh Penguins toiletry bag. The other was the wrestling-style championship belt awarded by David Wright to Walker as the player of the game.
Walker, whose two-run homer in the fourth inning against ex-Met Chris Young accounted for all of the scoring, wasn’t sure he fully deserved the honor, though.