This is the playoff pumpkin. Pete Alonso picked it himself this week at a Wisconsin pumpkin patch. It's now another good-luck ...

The story of how the pumpkin -- and its carved-up Jack O'Lantern version -- became a symbol of Halloween is connected to ...

Pete Alonso and the New York Mets are taking a playoff pumpkin with them on their October run back to the Big Apple.

The origin of the purported rally gourd goes like this, according to Alonso: A week ago Thursday, when the Mets had an ...

The Mets have faced that other NL East nemesis, the Braves, in the playoffs, but the Phillies are something new. When ...

A local farm may have accidentally played a small part in helping the Mets beat the Brewer's in last night's heartbreaker. Mets star Pete Alanso smashed the three-run homer in the 9t ...

The NL East champion Phillies went 7-6 against the Mets this season, with one notable asterisk. The Phillies lost three of ...

Since the Mets’ debut in 1962, the rivals have played 1,081 games and never met in the postseason – and that changes Saturday ...

Kodai Senga, who has thrown just 5 1/3 major league innings all year, is the surprise Game 1 starter for the New York Mets ...

Mets first baseman Pete Alonso said “nothing’s more fall than playoff baseball and pumpkins.” [MORRY GASH/THE ASSOCIATED ...