Some fans at Citi Field wore ponchos. Some wore hoodies. Some held hot coffee. Some held hands.
And at the end of this dark, damp, windy Friday night in Queens, many left believing it wouldn’t be their only brush with fall baseball.
Returning to Citi Field for the first time since deflating back-to-back sweeps by the Braves and Cubs, the Mets opened their 10-game homestand by ending their season-worst losing streak in Flushing. To do so, they had to recover from Edwin Diaz’s latest ninth-inning meltdown to pull out their latest dramatic win, 5-4, over the similarly desperate Phillies on Pete Alonso’s two-out, bases loaded, game-ending walk.