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New York Mets' Pete Alonso keeps Playoff Pumpkin charm safe - ESPN

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NEW YORK — The Playoff Pumpkin is alive and well. Pete Alonso's pumpkin, first purchased in Wisconsin when the New York Mets were playing the Milwaukee Brewers in a wild-card series, currently sits in his locker at Citi Field.

It is a reminder not only of Alonso's ninth-inning home run off Brewers closer Devin Williams that saved the Mets' season, but of all the good fortune that has gone the Mets' way so far in October.

Indeed, Alonso seems a little possessive about his prized gourd. It goes on the road with him, of course — so far, from Milwaukee to Philadelphia to New York to Los Angeles and now back to New York. «What I do, I always take it with me,» Alonso said before Game 3 of the NLCS, greeting reporters in a Playoff Pumpkin hoodie and OMG ski cap. «On the road I've taken it back to the hotel because I don't want any clubbies or anybody messing with it.

It's kept safe every day.» And, no, the pumpkin does not go in his suitcase. «Oh, no, I carry it with me. Because it could be destroyed in my luggage,» he said, with the seriousness of facing Blake Treinen with the game on the line.

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NEW YORK — Friday evening at Citi Field began with The Temptations singing their 1965 hit single "My Girl" in an ode to Francisco Lindor's walk-up song. Lindor, while warming up on the field, smiled and sang along to the lyrics. Pete Alonso, stretching before what could be his final home game as a Met, joined in, too, and pretty soon the crowd — understandably tense before an elimination game — relaxed a little. Watching the jovial scene unfold in Queens, it was hard to tell that the Mets had lost by eight runs on each of the previous two days and were facing elimination. 
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