Pete Alonso has pointed 4-word message for Mets opponents after latest walk-off

The New York Mets are doing something in 2025 that great teams always do: winning close games late.

Monday night was just the latest example, as New York rallied in the bottom of the ninth to break a 3-3 tie and won the game on a one-out sacrifice fly from superstar first baseman Pete Alonso. 

Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, as they so often do, got on base in front of Soto to set up the "Polar Bear's" heroics. And Alonso, who had already given the Mets the lead with an RBI single in the seventh inning, put up a professional at-bat, taking a 98-mile-per-hour fastball to deep right field to score the winner.

It was only a May win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, so it's not as though the Mets should be celebrating an impending championship.

But as Alonso described it after the game, the team is beginning to form a clutch identity, and that should make other teams competing for the National League pennant nervous.

“We don’t give up,” Alonso said, per Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. “We’re a scrappy bunch. Yeah, we’ve got guys who can drive the ball out of the yard. We’ve got guys who can put up some good numbers offensively and hit the ball a long way and stuff like that.

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"But at the end of the day, our identity is we’re just a scrappy team. We fight to the last out.”

At 27-15, the Mets have already been in more than their fair share of one-run games, having gone 9-8 in such contests. Though that's not a record-setting pace, they're building their big-moment chops early in the season, which could pay dividends.

And most importantly, they've got a motivated Alonso on their side, which is fearsome for any contending team to have to combat.

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