Sunday’s game really started with Francisco Lindor’s second home run of the night.

His first home run was a three run shot off Clarke Schmidt in the second that gave the Mets a 4-2 lead, which would eventually be extended to a 5-2 lead on a James McCann sac fly. In the top of the 6th, Gleyber Torres hit a two run shot to make the score 5-4 to set up the beginning of the fun in the bottom of the 6th. After Lindor made it 6-4, he gave a little whistle towards his friend Gio Urshela, That’s when it came out on the broadcasts that after the Yankees found the tip in Taijuan Walker’s pitches on Saturday, that they were whistling to relay the pitches to their hitters before Jonathan Villar told Walker about the tip.

Sep 12, 2021; New York City, New York, USA; New York Yankees left fielder Giancarlo Stanton (27) stops at second base and says something to a player on the New York Mets after hitting a two run home run in the seventh inning at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports

So Lindor, sensing that technology was the only difference between what the Yankees did and what the Astros did, he stuck it to the Yankees. Now if we know anything about the Yankees is that when you throw their bullshit back at ’em, they take on a bit of a “how dare you” attitude. So when Giancarlo Stanton tied the game at 6-6 in the 7th with a massive two run home run off of Jake Hand, he gave Lindor a little “how dare you” when he was going around the bases, and a little bit of hell broke loose as the benches emptied. (Although for Lindor’s part, he said that Stanton didn’t want to fight and the whole thing was a misunderstanding … yeah, sure.)

Now it’s important to note, in advance of the 30 for 30 documentary about the Mets coming up this week, that if this was the 80’s, there might have been bloodshed. And I can’t vouch for there not having been bloodshed in the stands after that. But we did get the 20’s version of bloodshed, which was this:

It’s not often I get charged up over something like this. A lot of times this stuff is hilarious. But seeing as if this was the Yankees, and at the very least this was the Mets’ last chance to screw with the Yankees’ playoff hopes amidst the looming embarrassment if the Mets had lost this game, I absolutely wanted this one. I was jacked. So jacked that when Lindor hit his third home run of the game to right field, I got so excited that I tried to lay the narrative down that he hit it right over Stanton’s head.

Umm, one problem, stupid. Joey Gallo was in right. Stanton was in left. This game would have enough narrative that it didn’t need me to make up any. Many thanks to all my friends on Twitter that let that one slide.

Holy hell, Francisco Lindor hit his third home run of the game. It gave the Mets a 7-6 leadAnd that was with everything swirling around. Lindor proved that he wasn’t too big for that moment. It took him until September in a game that will probably wind up meaning nothing in the tangible, but everyone is sure as hell going to remember this one for a long time … as they should. I was roaring. I mean … really feeling myself. That is, until I realized that Edwin Diaz was coming in to close it out. The next three outs are going to wind up being our World Series, and it’s up to Edwin Diaz. I haven’t been this nervous since the Conor Gillaspie was batting against Jeurys Familia in 2016.

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