When Mets president Sandy Alderson arrived at Citi Field for work on Tuesday, I don’t think he ever expected to spend the moments following a wild win looking through individual blades of grass near home plate.
But nothing about the Mets has ever been predictable except for their dysfunction.
In the first game since since the team’s thumbs-down celebration drew scrutiny from the fans and Alderson, the Mets rallied to beat the Marlins in a ninth-inning comeback. Javy Baez — who was booed in his first plate appearance of the game because of his role in the thumbs-down saga — ended up scoring the winning run. It couldn’t have ended any other way.
THE METS WIN!!!!
ARE YOU KIDDING pic.twitter.com/qTMRVH07RG
— SNY (@SNYtv) August 31, 2021
Yet, you can always count on something to go wrong even in the happiest of moments for the Mets.
A search party remains on the field in Flushing apparently looking for a piece of jewelry that Javier Báez lost during his slide across home plate. Sandy Alderson is among those searching, alongside members of the grounds crew and security staffs.
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) August 31, 2021
Amid the mayhem around the plate, Baez evidently lost a piece of jewelry — one of his earrings. The grounds crew spent some time searching for the lost jewelry piece, and eventually Alderson joined in on the search.
Right now, Sandy Alderson has joined the Mets grounds crew in searching the field for something that fell during the team’s walk-off celebration. pic.twitter.com/d86ApiJ5rJ
— Deesha (@DeeshaThosar) August 31, 2021
It’s no easy task to find an earring on a baseball field, and Alderson didn’t stick around the whole time.
Update. Sandy has given up the search.
— Anthony Rieber (@AnthonyRieber) August 31, 2021
Either way, we know that earring didn’t just disappear. It’s somewhere on that field. But, of course, it would take a lost earring to get Mets fans back to cheering for Baez.
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