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.

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

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

In Alonso's own words, "Nothing's more like fall than playoff baseball and pumpkins." That's it. It's as simple as Alonso and ...

After a come-from-behind win for the ages, the Mets went nuts in the clubhouse, popping champagne in the revelry of it all as ...

Before the team had any affiliation with Grimace, they were 28-37 (.430) and the playoffs seemed like a pipe dream. But since ...

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

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

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

Pete Alonso's three-run go-ahead home run in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 3 of the wild card series against the Milwaukee Brewers ensured Citi Field will see more games this October.