Francisco Lindor and Javier Baez apologized to New York Mets fans on Tuesday, saying they were wrong for giving thumbs-down gestures after getting booed in recent games.
"Thumbs down for me means adversity, the adversity we have gone through in this whole time,'' Lindor said. "Like the negative things, we overcome it, so it's like, 'We did it! We went over it!'
"However, it was wrong, and I apologize to whoever I offended. It was not my intent to offend people.''
It reached a boiling point within the organization when Baez made the gesture to the crowd after getting a hit during Sunday's 9-4 victory at Citi Field.