Situational swinging

I guess Luis Castillo was the only Metropolitan who graduated from Jerry Manual’s 80-pitch, situational-hitting, come out of the cage feeling three pounds lighter spring-training bonanza.

In case you missed it, Castillo contributed a pair of two-out, run-scoring infield hits – one in the first and a walk-off version of eerily similar variety in the ninth – in last night’s 5-4 Mets win over the Brew Crew.

Now he needs to sprinkle some of that magical situational hitting dust on his teammates.