MMO Roundtable: Looking Back At Our Favorite 2024 Mets Moment

The end of the year is here. It’s a time to look back at the year that’s slowly coming to an end. Usually, this is something we as Mets fans do with a negative light associated with it. But not this year – this year it’s (mostly) positive.

With a lot of happy 2024 Mets memories, which one takes the cake as the best moment? Our team here at MMO is sharing what they think was the top Mets moment of 2024.

Allison Waxman

It’s gotta be Pete Alonso’s Wild Card Game 3 home run. If there’s a moment that captures the spirit and heart of the 2024 Mets it’s that. When all hope was lost, the script was flipped in one swing and, once again, I believed like no other. I screamed in my apartment, I actually cried. I laughed. I texted all my fellow Met fans. I had friends who weren’t even baseball fans text me and talk to me about it. While they didn’t win it all, I think it will still go down as one of the best moments in Mets’ history. 2024 was the year things started to change, the year people’s perception of the team changed. After that swing, outsiders believed in this team, these players, and this fanbase. #ComeHomePete #LFGM

Johnluke Chaparro

Obviously the Alonso home run is up there but I’m going to pick the Francisco Lindor go-ahead home run against the Braves during game one of the final doubleheader. Showing how much of a leader he is, he came up big after a huge Mets comeback that was thwarted by the Braves having one of their own. That home run set the tone for what the Mets’ 2024 postseason run was all about. The Mets fought and clawed their way through until they couldn’t anymore and that home run against Atlanta was the definition of their resilience.

Mathias Altman-Kurosaki

There are so many options, but I have to go with Pete Alonso’s go-ahead three-run homer off Devin Williams. It could’ve been Alonso’s last at-bat as a Met if he didn’t get the job done, and it felt like six months of disappointment being let go at once. When the Brewers hit back-to-back homers in the seventh inning, a comeback felt impossible. When Alonso dropped a foul pop, it felt like the universe was just mocking the Mets. The Polar Bear wasn’t going to let things end on that note. I have lost count of how many times I’ve watched this home run since it happened.

Christian De Block

The Alonso home run in Game 3 against the Brewers was awesome, one of the coolest moments I’ve ever experienced as a Mets fan. After the Game 2 loss, I said to my friends, “We are getting a big hit from one of Lindor or Alonso. Something big in a critical spot.” The next day, we certainly did! We love you Pete and we want you back more than you ever know. #BringPeteBack #WeLovePete

David Melendi

It’s Alonso’s homer for me too but just to mix things up I’ll pick another favorite. Jake Diekman striking out Aaron Judge with one out in the ninth inning of a 3-2 win at Yankee Stadium. Fun bit of trivia to share with your Yankee fan friends: future Hall of Famer Juan Soto was on first base.

Michelle Ioannou

It has to be Pete Alonso’s home run. Not only do I have chills just thinking about the homer itself, but the whole narrative around it. We were all talking about/thinking how it could be the last time we see Pete step up to the plate in the orange and blue and then boom – he showed all of us exactly why he should remain a Met.

Chris Bello 

My favorite moment of the 2024 season was Game 161 against the Braves in Atlanta. It was such a pivotal moment and the beginning of what would become a magical ride for the Mets in the postseason. Being shut out by Spencer Schwellenbach, to then scoring six runs in one inning, and then the back and forth in the later inners with the failures of both closers and Francisco Lindor’s homer in the ninth. It was spectacular.

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