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Inside Mets' Francisco Lindor's series-clinching grand slam: 'A swing of a lifetime'

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NEW YORK — Katia Lindor closed her eyes and started praying. When she opened them, the ball off Francisco Lindor's bat was still in the air — and heading toward the fence in right-center field. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon," she told herself as it continued to sail.

Finally, the ball landed beyond the fence and into the visitor's bullpen. Pandemonium ensued around her, a blur of fans in orange and blue jumping up and down and making the ground shake.

She started crying.  "It's almost like a weight is lifted off our shoulders where it's like, people finally appreciate him, and they see his value," Lindor's wife said. "I think they're starting to see it beyond the field, too, and definitely on the field.

I'm so proud of him. I'm in awe of him every day. His hard work is just incessant. He does not take his responsibility and his role lightly." Lindor's sixth-inning grand slam was perhaps the biggest home run in Citi Field's brief history, and perhaps the best swing of his life.

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