On a day when the Mets placed pitcher Steven Matz on the disabled list for the remainder of the season and announced before their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks that Michael Conforto had been scratched from the lineup with a sore right thumb, there was also a modicum of positive news to emerge from Citi Field.

About 1,200 miles south, in Port Charlotte, Fla., David Wright, who last played for the Mets on May 27, 2016, began a rehab assignment with Class A St. Lucie, batting third as the designated hitter in a lineup that included Tim Tebow.

It was Port St. Lucie where Wright arrived for spring training in February looking to reclaim a career hampered by back and neck injuries that had caused him to miss 249 regular-season games during the previous two years.

But just as Wright got going then, he injured his shoulder. Since spring training, he had not played in a game until Tuesday, when he went 0 for 4, with two strikeouts.