Pete Alonso is the newest MLB postseason hero after his three-run home run in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the National League wild-card series against the Milwaukee Brewers sent the New York Mets back to the NLDS for the first time since 2015.
After the game, Alonso ditched an interview with MLB Network so he could take a team picture. And after that, he headed back to the locker room where the Mets' celebration got even more rowdy.
And that's where the world learned about the playoff pumpkin.
Pete Alonso introduces the Mets playoff pumpkin 🎃😂 pic.twitter.com/3eNZfFwqOV
— SNY (@SNYtv) October 4, 2024
In Alonso's own words, "Nothing's more like fall than playoff baseball and pumpkins." That's it. It's as simple as Alonso and his wife going to pick pumpkins the day before the series started. It doesn't matter how impractical it is to pick pumpkins 900 miles from your home. A new MLB good luck charm was born.
Big news from the visiting clubhouse at Truist Park, at least to me, is that Pete Alonso brought a small pumpkin/gourd today and put it on the top shelf of his locker. I have never seen this before.
— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) September 30, 2024
And just like that the whole internet loves the playoff pumpkin, a lovely pumpkin that helps the New York Mets win playoff games.
Pete Alonso holding the “Playoff Pumpkin.” He picked it himself last weekend. pic.twitter.com/82bNP1WefO
— Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) October 4, 2024
Pete Alonso is partying with the pumpkin 😂🎃 pic.twitter.com/LQoAObZUCa
— SNY (@SNYtv) October 4, 2024
This is the playoff pumpkin. Pete Alonso picked it himself this week at a Wisconsin pumpkin patch. It's now another good-luck charm for the Mets. pic.twitter.com/l7ewDnvu6w
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) October 4, 2024
Maybe the most amazing part about all this is that we've never seen a playoff pumpkin before. It makes at least as much sense as a summer sausage.
This article was originally published on www.si.com as Pete Alonso's 'Playoff Pumpkin' Becomes a Thing After Mets Beat Brewers.
