Last week, the Mets were hyped about a fictitious hitting approach coach named Donnie Stevenson. This week, the drama arrived because of … an alleged “New York rat.”
Following a spectacle in the Mets tunnel between innings during their 5-4 win against the Diamondbacks on Friday, almost every player and coach in the Mets dugout ran inside or peered down the steps to see what was going on.
Francisco Lindor said he was having a debate with Jeff McNeil about a rat, or a raccoon, in the tunnel. That’s certainly a new way to describe what looked like a heated and serious situation that involved the entire team, but here’s what Lindor wants fans, and the public at large, to believe.