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Never tell me the odds. Trailing by two runs in the top of the ninth inning in an elimination game with one of the best closers in baseball on the mound for the Brewers, the Mets rallied for four runs to take the lead in stunning fashion and clinch the Wild Card Series to win. Pete Alonso’s three-run home run to right field turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead, one of the biggest home runs in franchise and postseason baseball history.

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Mike Vaccaro writes that the home run was Pete Alonso’s eternal moment, and David Lennon writes about Alonso’s complete turnaround from his recent troubles.

Jesse Winker enjoyed a big moment when he scored a key insurance run in the ninth and slammed his helmet shut in celebration.

Jose Quintana got off to a fantastic start that kept the Mets very much in the game with six scoreless innings of work.

After José Buttó struggled and Edwin Díaz steered the ship through the rest of the seventh and all of the eighth, David Peterson came on and got his first career save in the ninth.

Here are the back pages of the New York City tabloids with the Mets’ win.

Alonso and his wife picked pumpkins this week, and the slugger introduced the Mets’ playoff pumpkin to the crowd during the Mets’ post-win clubhouse party.

While they were in the field in the bottom of the eighth, Jose Iglesias told Alonso that the first baseman would hit a home run in the ninth.

Brandon Nimmo lost his grandmother about an hour before Game 3 started.

Alonso believes in the Mets’ ability to sustain success under Steve Cohen and David Stearns.

Kodai Senga is in talks for the Mets’ NLDS roster.

Before the game, Anthony DiComo wondered if this would be Pete Alonso’s last appearance as a Met. The answer, Tony, was absolutely no.

The Mets became the first team ever to play five games, including three postseason games in a four-day span.

As the Mets face the Phillies for the first time in the playoffs, Tyler Kepner writes about ten of the most memorable moments in the rivalry between the two teams.

The Mets will discuss their starting pitching plans today for the series against the Phillies, but Tylor Megill emerges today as the leading candidate to start Game 1.

The Athletic staff gave a preview of the upcoming NLDS match.

Around the National League East

Eager to remain a joke of a franchise, the Marlins are firing a number of people.

Around Major League Baseball

The Reds hire Terry Francona, who not long ago appeared to be retiring for good, as their new manager.

Yesterday on Amazin’ Avenue

Mets Morning News and news of the Mets’ lineup kept everyone talking yesterday.

This date in Mets history

The Mets won Game 1 of the NLDS against the Dodgers on this date in 2006, the game featuring the extraordinary moment when Paul Lo Duca tagged out two Dodgers at the plate on the same play.