As Jeff McNeil rounded the bases in the third inning Friday night after blasting a three-run homer to put the Mets up 3-1 against the Pirates, he thought about how it might help his case for convincing his wife to adopt the puppy he had played with prior to the game.
“When I got in the dugout, I said I was getting a puppy,” McNeil said following the Mets’ 6-3 win at Citi Field. “I was pretty happy. How could you not be happy with a puppy in your hands?”
The North Shore Animal League America, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, put out a pen of puppies at the stadium in the hope of gaining exposure for adoptions.