Realizing Francisco Lindor can be lacking just a few days because of a again ailment — and who is aware of really how a lot in all? — David Stearns and Carlos Mendoza known as an impromptu staff assembly earlier than Monday evening’s sequence opener with their most important participant out for these most crucial of video games.
The sensation was the staff wanted to come back collectively and discuss what was forward of them amid such a considerable loss, even for a brief interval, because of the time of 12 months.
And three individuals wound up talking on the assembly.
The president of baseball operations.
The supervisor.
And Pete Alonso.
A number of in attendance famous Alonso’s ardour in speaking about how in his time with the membership the Mets have been pseudo in a playoff race when he was a rookie in 2019 and didn’t get to really have a good time moving into the event in 2022 as a result of they didn’t know till the ultimate common season day that they weren’t profitable the NL East and falling into the wild card felt like anticlimax.
The Mets misplaced within the first spherical of the playoffs and by no means received to have a good time.
And, past that, the Mets hadn’t sniffed the playoffs in Alonso’s different seasons.
So, talking for the veteran gamers and workers who’ve been round, Alonso implored that he desires to have a good time, in his phrases, “with the boys.” Thus, it was crucial the staff lock in the remainder of the way in which and get into the postseason.
It was a stirring strategy to start what probably may very well be his last homestand as a Met.
Alonso is because of be a free agent after this season and the sport Monday in opposition to Washington marked the conclusion of the ultimate regular-season homestand, a seven-gamer that features 4 in opposition to the Phillies.
The Mets didn’t but know the outcomes of Lindor’s MRI on his again when the assembly Monday was known as. They solely sensed that they’d be working for, at minimal, just a few days with out their greatest participant, staff chief and robust NL MVP candidate. The Mets would announce that the MRI was clear with no structural injury and that Lindor mentioned he expects to play once more this season.
However Lindor didn’t begin Monday or Tuesday.
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