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An emotional Francisco Lindor said while holding back tears that the Mets are “on a mission” and that their wild-as-hell wild-card clincher — on the strength of his go-ahead ninth-inning homer after an insane roller coaster in the eighth — simply “gets us one step closer to where we want to be.”
Of course, it was much, much more than that.
Especially for a franchise that has suffered massive indignities in Atlanta and against the Braves — right up to Edwin Diaz’s inexcusable failure to cover first base as he blew a three-run lead in the eighth.
Brandon Nimmo called Monday afternoon’s 8-7 win an “instant classic.” SNY announcer and noted team historian Gary Cohen dubbed it “one of the greatest games in the history of the Mets.”
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