After the grind of a 162-game season, emotions are always running high come playoff time. And in Game 1 of the wild-card series between the Mets and Brewers, we saw what could happen when tensions reach a boiling point.
With no outs in the second inning of Game 1, Mets outfielder Jesse Winker exchanged words with Willy Adames during a mound visit following a game-tying triple. Some brilliant lip reading from Jomboy Media revealed that Adames told Winker that he would meet him in the parking lot. You know, to settle whatever beef they had.
Well, Adames is a man of his word because he actually went to the parking lot after the game to look for Winker.
Jesse Winker and Willy Adames exchange words after Winker's game-tying triple pic.twitter.com/Fc7PpE07xe
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Adames said via the New York Post:
“I was there (in the lot),” Adames added, saying Winker didn’t show.
Sources told The Post that Winker was upset by Frankie Montas drilling him with a pitch on the backside last Friday. Winker walked away when asked about the incident, saying only, “Why?”
It’s kind of wild that Adames was still so heated after the game that he waited in the parking lot. But that’s what playoff baseball can do.
Word of the altercation clearly spread among Brewers fans because Winker was loudly booed during his first at-bat in Game 3.
