Thursday marks an overlooked anniversary for the Mets, although it is one that should actually be laser-locked in the organizational memory and summoned every day.<\/p>\n
There were a lot of breathtakingly wonderful moments from their great October surge of \u201924. Francisco Lindor had two of them: the ninth-inning blast in Atlanta in Game 161 on the day after the regular season ended that secured the postseason, and the grand slam off Philadelphia\u2019s Carlos Est\u00e9vez that all but clinched the NLDS. Pete Alonso had another, his forever blast off Devin Williams in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
In truth, the high-water mark for the Mets in 2024 \u2014 and maybe for the last 39 years, excepting their trips to the World Series in 2000 and 2015 \u2014 was right around 8:15 or so on that night of Oct. 16, 2024. The Mets had split the first two games of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium. They now had three straight games at Citi Field, and only a week earlier they\u2019d made the Phillies quake in their stirrups across 18 intimidating innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe we can win any game we play in this building,\u201d Luis Severino had said the day before, and in the moment it just seemed like the reciting of a fact, nothing close to a boast. The Mets knew if they held serve at home, they\u2019d never have to play in L.A. again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday marks an overlooked anniversary for the Mets, although it is one that should actually be laser-locked in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2323,363,30997,1189,111127,978,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-228672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york-mets","tag-nlcs","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}