PHOENIX -- New York Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki was sent to a Phoenix doctor on Friday afternoon with what manager Terry Collins described as a repeat of the vertigo symptoms the rookie experienced last season with Triple-A Las Vegas as well as briefly earlier this season.

The Mets subsequently announced: "Kevin Plawecki has a virus that is causing head congestion. He is day to day."

Plawecki was getting medical attention away from the ballpark and unavailable before Friday's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

He told ESPN.com in September about last year's vertigo: “I got super dizzy. I was just sitting in a chair and all of a sudden the room started spinning on me. I got really dizzy and saw the doctor that night, and I woke up the next morning and you just feel off. You feel like your balance isn’t right. It just took me a few days to get over that -- a week, ultimately.

“We think it was just the flying that was going on -- the high altitude. That’s what causes it, mainly. It’s just the change in pressure and stuff like that. There’s no way to really pinpoint something like that.”

Anthony Recker is starting for the Mets at catcher on Friday. The Mets do not have a bona fide backup catcher, so Eric Campbell or Danny Muno would serve in an emergency situation, according to Collins. Campbell just took up catching during spring training. He caught a few innings on the minor league side in March.

Collins joked that Recker is built like a tank, so it would take a lot to knock him out of a game.