LOS ANGELES -- As soon as he turned into the clubhouse, Sandy Alderson was ambushed. He tried to turn around, but was encircled. Then the straight-laced Mets GM just embraced the moment, jumping up and down with the players all around him as he was doused in freezing champagne.
He was doing what his team had shown him all season: being resilient and taking the ice-cold bath from the players. .
"I just think the team was so resilient. That was true throughout the season, true in the series, true in this game," Alderson said. "We got down 2-1 in the first and things looked dicey.