The Mets were popping the bubbly in Brew City on Thursday night — and had an additional good-luck charm.
After a come-from-behind win for the ages, the Mets went nuts within the clubhouse, popping champagne within the revelry of all of it as they clinched a spot within the NLDS after a wild 4-2 win over the Brewers.
Pete Alonso, the Game 3 hero with a dramatic three-run homer to place the Mets up in the highest of the ninth, was at the middle of all of it with an unusual piece of playoff lore.
A Wisconsin pumpkin.
Alonso, while talking to reporters within the raucous scene within the visitors’ clubhouse at American Family Field, explained he had picked a pumpkin this week within the lead-up to what was an exhilarating series with the Brewers.
“Nothing is more fall than playoff baseball and pumpkins,” Alonso said, who went pumpkin picking together with his wife, Haley, at a farm about 25-Half-hour outside of the town.
Manager Carlos Mendoza, who won his first playoff series as a big-league manager, also gave a rousing speech amid a lull within the chaos.
“We keep having fun, we keep smiling, that is us right here!” Mendoza said. “And we proceed to imagine — let’s go!”
The skipper then joined in on the fun by spraying champagne within the jubilant scene.
The Mets were popping the bubbly in Brew City on Thursday night — and had an additional good-luck charm.
After a come-from-behind win for the ages, the Mets went nuts within the clubhouse, popping champagne within the revelry of all of it as they clinched a spot within the NLDS after a wild 4-2 win over the Brewers.
Pete Alonso, the Game 3 hero with a dramatic three-run homer to place the Mets up in the highest of the ninth, was at the middle of all of it with an unusual piece of playoff lore.
A Wisconsin pumpkin.
Alonso, while talking to reporters within the raucous scene within the visitors’ clubhouse at American Family Field, explained he had picked a pumpkin this week within the lead-up to what was an exhilarating series with the Brewers.
“Nothing is more fall than playoff baseball and pumpkins,” Alonso said, who went pumpkin picking together with his wife, Haley, at a farm about 25-Half-hour outside of the town.
Manager Carlos Mendoza, who won his first playoff series as a big-league manager, also gave a rousing speech amid a lull within the chaos.
“We keep having fun, we keep smiling, that is us right here!” Mendoza said. “And we proceed to imagine — let’s go!”
The skipper then joined in on the fun by spraying champagne within the jubilant scene.
