On Thursday night Pete Alonso of the Mets was on the right side of that cosmic energy. Everything looked bleak for New York’s season. Down 2-0 in the 8th inning of their Wild Card game against the Brewers,

The origin of the purported rally gourd goes like this, according to Alonso: A week ago Thursday, when the Mets had an impromptu day off in Milwaukee after escaping rainy Atlanta, he and his wife, Haley, went to a farm in Wisconsin. He bought a pumpkin.

Pete Alonso hammered a historic go-ahead, three-run home run in the ninth inning to power the New York Mets to a 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in their winner-take-all Game 3 of the NL Wild Card Series.