Pete Alonso and Eduardo Escobar handing lottery tickets to Buck Showalter today is officially the biggest mystery of the Mets season thus far. ud83euddd0ud83dude02
— Boardroom (@boardroom) August 15, 2022
If you need a weird and mysterious Mets story, well … jackpot.
The Mets were up 6-0 on the Phillies in the top of the ninth inning on Sunday, with the bases loaded and Philadelphia down to its final out. That’s when Mets manager Buck Showalter came out to the mound to A: swap out Joely Rodriguez for Adam Ottavino, and B: snag some lottery tickets, apparently.