Tommy Pham reveals ridiculously simple fix that led to hitting surge

Mets’ Tommy Pham had a simple, almost all-too-obvious solution to improving his hitting this season: changing his contact lens. 

Turns out, a set of new lenses and a little contact solution can do an infielder wonders. New York Mets’ Tommy Pham played a major role in the team’s 5-1 victory over the Miami Marlins on Sunday and credited his hitting surge to his newly corrected vision.

Pham has been dealing with an eye condition known as keratoconus since 2008. He received a fresh pair of contact lenses from his eye doctor on Friday and told reporters he immediately saw the field better, leading to his dominant 3-for-4 performance on the plate this weekend.

Pham said:

"“I feel like I am seeing the ball better… My other lenses from the spring had a little bit too much astigmatism. A little too much ‘residual cylinder’ is the term, and she eliminated some of that for me, so now I can see.”"

In Sunday’s win, Pham scored the game’s first run; he also scored a two-run homer in the fifth inning and delivered an RBI double.

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Pham’s impressive performance coincided with Kodai Senga’s debut for New York, and Senga overcome some early obstacles to strike out eight Marlins in the Mets’ third win of the four-game opening series. The ghost forkball is very real.

Hopefully, Pham’s vision continues to bring out the best in the veteran infielder who slashed .234/.298/.374 last season with the Boston Red Sox.

The 35-year-old finished a triple shy of the cycle and is already starting to prove the Mets fanbase wrong — all he needed to revive his career was a change of contact lenses, apparently.

The more intriguing storyline to follow in the Mets’ clubhouse is the season trajectory of Eduardo Escobar, who is 1-for-16 in the first three games, compared to Triple-A stud Brett Baty. Early responses to Escobar’s slump and Baty’s surge may feel like a gross overreaction, and maybe all Escobar needs to get back into the swing of things is a new pair of glasses.

It worked for Pham.