The followers within the halls and the concourses at Citi Subject afterward had been alternately chanting “Let’s Go Mets” and “Pete A-Lon-So.”
Mets followers are a resilient lot, even after enduring the horror of the earlier eight video games (all losses), and, in a couple of circumstances, the earlier 63 seasons.
By some means, by all of it, the orange-and-blue trustworthy nonetheless imagine. Or at the very least they hope to imagine.
Pete Alonso’s walk-off three-run homer within the tenth inning modified the temper across the membership, one which desperately wanted altering. The $340 million membership had misplaced eight straight and fallen as little as they’d been all 12 months. The 5-2 win over a shocking, surging Rangers staff lastly introduced life to a proficient membership that these days appeared headed for oblivion.
