Mets play broadcaster's viral call of Pete Alonso's home run on plane, give him standing ovation

The New York Mets are wide regarded arsenic having the champion announcers successful the sport, and Thursday nighttime offered an illustration why.

Howie Rose, who has been calling Mets games since 1995 and grew up a instrumentality of the team, was connected the telephone connected 880 AM successful New York, and some Rose and Pete Alonso delivered successful the immense moment.

Trailing 2-0 and 2 outs distant from elimination, Alonso blasted a three-run location tally to springiness New York a 3-2 lead. They yet won, 4-2, to beforehand past the Milwaukee Brewers into the divisional round.

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New York Mets vigor announcer Howie Rose is introduced during the Mets' Hall of Fame Induction ceremonial anterior to a crippled betwixt the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets June 3, 2023, astatine Citi Field successful Flushing, N.Y. (Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

If the Mets upwind up winning it all, Rose's telephone volition surely beryllium connected the item video.

"It's gone! He did it! He did it! Pete Alonso with the astir memorable location tally of his career!" Rose exclaimed arsenic the shot trickled implicit the fence. "Pete Alonso keeps this fairy-tale play going with the fairy-tale plaything of his career! 3-2 New York!"

Rose and the Mets are headed to Philadelphia for the NLDS against the Phillies aft the champagne showers.

New York Mets vigor announcer Howie Rose speaks astatine a property league astir being inducted into the Mets' Hall of Fame earlier a crippled betwixt the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets June 3, 2023, astatine Citi Field successful Flushing, N.Y. (Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

While connected the plane, though, with Rose sitting adjacent the beforehand and the remainder of the squad respective rows back, idiosyncratic played the telephone connected the plane's speakers.

Rose was shy astatine first, adjacent covering his ears, but Mets players gave him a lasting ovation.

The broadcaster turned around, pointed astatine Alonso and saluted, and the 2 shared a immense embrace.

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Rose was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame on with TV broadcaster Gary Cohen past year. Thursday night's location tally telephone automatically goes into Rose's Mt. Rushmore of calls. Rose was besides down the mic for Mike Piazza's location tally successful the Mets' archetypal location crippled aft 9/11 and Stéphane Matteau's extremity successful 1994 to nonstop the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup Final.

The miraculous triumph is déjà vu for the Mets. It came conscionable 3 days aft the Mets fought backmost from down 3-0 successful the eighth and 7-6 successful the ninth against the Atlanta Braves to clinch a postseason spot successful their archetypal crippled of a doubleheader.

Everything looked similar it was down the drain for the Mets, who, aft pulling Jose Quintana pursuing six scoreless innings, allowed back-to-back homers to commencement the seventh inning. Alonso's blast was the archetypal ever by a Met portion trailing successful the 9th inning oregon aboriginal of a winner-take-all postseason game, according to OPTA Stats.

Pete Alonso of the New York Mets celebrates aft hitting a location tally successful the ninth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers during Game 3 of a wild-card bid astatine American Family Field Oct. 3, 2024, successful Milwaukee.  (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

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This marks the archetypal clip the Mets and Phillies volition play each different successful the postseason. The archetypal transportation is scheduled for Saturday astatine 4:08 p.m. ET.

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