R. A. Dickey crouched near a video room outside the Mets’ clubhouse on Monday and waited. Suddenly, the door swung open.
“Hooray!” Dickey shouted, grinning as the Mets staff members inside returned the enthusiastic greeting.
He was back.
Dickey, a 40-year-old Blue Jays knuckleballer who won the 2012 National League Cy Young Award along with the hearts of many Mets fans, returned to Citi Field on Monday for the first time since he was traded to Toronto after that season. His last game in Queens — the most memorable moment, he said, of that improbable and compelling season, when he pitched an N.