“What a story, right?”
Those words, first uttered by the Mets’ manager, Carlos Mendoza, were written on the special edition Mets beer koozie I bought at the game against the Dodgers last Friday. While they summed up the team’s entire improbable postseason run, they seemed especially appropriate that night.
The Temptations sung the national anthem, then serenaded shortstop Francisco Lindor and the crowd with the song “My Girl” — which played again as Lindor’s walk-up song when it was his turn to bat, in honor of his wife, Katia, and their two daughters.