The crowd stood and rocked Citi Field, the theme to “The Natural” mixing in to create a soundtrack of hope, appreciation, euphoria.
Pete Alonso had turned the first pitch of the bottom of the fourth — a 92 mph Yu Darvish fastball — into history. The Polar Bear outdoing a Cub. Alonso went 402 feet to the opposite field, cleared the right-field wall and Todd Hundley and Carlos Beltran. His 42nd homer the most ever in any of the Mets’ 58 seasons.
The Mets led an important late August game 1-0 and then …
Nothing.