From the start, the 44,093 in the house were loud, they were joyous, they wanted to take part in the experience of late-afternoon, October baseball, squeezing a few last drops out of summer. They stood. They chanted. They roared with every pitch Sean Manaea threw across seven-plus brilliant innings. They roared when Pete Alonso went deep, and Jesse Winker later on.
And they really lent their voices to the sky when Ryne Stanek struck out Kody Clemens to put this 7-2 Mets victory in the books, to nudge the Mets within one game of the National League Championship Series, to nudge the hated Phillies a few steps closer to the abyss. If it wasn’t the loudest Citi Field has ever been, it’s certainly in the conversation.
Till now, the loudest moment had been Oct. 30, 2015. The Mets were already down two games to none to the Royals, and already down 1-0 in Game 3 of the World Series. Citi Field had already warmed up for this moment by bringing the noise against the Dodgers in the NLDS and the Cubs in the NLCS.
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