Manifest W

As I wrapped up driving rideshare last night, I said on social media, both Twitter and some Mets facebook groups, that I “have to go to sleep soon, but I envision waking up at 5am to the sights of a Mets W…Or the 28th inning.”

Luckily it was the former that came to fruition.

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I lasted, with the radio on, till about the 3rd or 4th inning. I either woke up right before or was woken up to Howie’s call of Pete Alonso’s home run in the 9th inning. The call was detailed enough to inform me this home run had broken a tie. I smiled as I closed my eyes once more.

I did not last woken up long enough to hear the Mets just hang on to a 7-6 win. I was lucky enough to wake up around 5:40 to the sights of that conjured Mets W. I have not gone into the full details of how this Mets win came to be other than what I took in early in the game as well as that Pete Alonso call, probably falling asleep sometime after the Padres had tied it at 2. A box score, however, can speak a thousand numbers. By the looks of it, the Mets were down 3 but persevered to tie the game. Then Alonso, who made a bold statement by backing up his words the other night that we HAD to win this next game, lead the charge with the game-winning home run.

He willed this team to a W and the words I spoke before going to bed luckily rang true. They showed resiliency by battling back from a deficit that would have led to their 5th straight loss. Now, however, they must carry this momentum into today's day game. It will mean nothing if they cannot use yesterday as a catalyst to stop this pattern of yet again losing steam as April turns into the rest of the season.

It will be so.

KEEP. ON. PUSHIN'.

LET'S. GO. METS.