Please correct me if I am wrong here!

I dont know if anyone remembers or not, but on mlb.com there was a blue Joe Smith Mets batting helmet that was being sold as game used. The helmet was from last season. There were no marks on the helmet, and looked clean. I looked up Joe Smiths batting stats from the '08 season and saw that he had only 1 at bat. I thought it would be awesome to win the helmet that he wore for the 1 and only plate appearance he had in the season.

I wanted to double check and make sure the Mets wore the same color helmet during the game in which Joe had his plate appearance. I searched all over the interent for days with no luck of the information. Finally, I found it. It was last summer in Philly if i can remember correctly when Joe had the at-bat, and I found pics of the game on Getty Images. No pics of Joe, but there were of other players. All I needed were pics of a Mets player batting with a blue Mets helemt and that would confirm that the helmet on MLB.com was the exact helmet Joe wore.

Black helmet?? that makes no sence. that would mean the helmet on mlb.com is actually not game used. But why would it say that it IS in the item description??? I ended up not bidding obviously. But cant anyone explain what happened?