In the October chill inside the Mets dugout, soon to be warmed by a long-suffering fan base that turned its home on this night into ElectriCiti Field, 1986 World Series champion Tim Teufel still believed.
“You haven’t seen the best of us yet,” Teufel told The Post before Mets 9, Royals 3, in front of a rollicking 44,781 — the largest, and loudest, crowd in Citi Field history. “I think we’re gonna see a different team here tonight.”
What we saw was the white-hot love affair between a championship-starved baseball team and its championship-starved constituency that have reclaimed October from the Yankees.