For the first of two activities against the Mets at Citi Field, countless fans showed up dressed as the colored McDonald’s symbol on Tuesday night, taking the team’s fan count to new heights.
Since an exact Grimace symbol threw out the ceremonial first pitch before a match at Citi Field on June 12th, the Yankees have been on a roll. They were 28- 37 at the time but soon went on a seven- activity win run and, with over their uptown competitors, are then 38- 39.
They have won 14 of their last 18 game.
“Grimace is our god”, Amanda Indart, who was one of many viewers to use a whole Grimace match Tuesday, told the Daily News. “He’s our winning symbol. I was hoping he would send us some fine fortune for the Subway Series because he had us on that winning run.”
When the jumbotron aired side-by-side videos of Indart and another fan wearing a Grimace match dancing in various areas of the rough on Tuesday, Citi Field exploded with applause.
More followers were discovered to be wearing subtler Grimace clothing, including T-shirts under their Mets sweaters.
And it happened naturally.
Indart, 34, made a friend’s purchase of a blanket suit amidst the Mets’ Grimace hype, and she volunteered to use it. McDougall now owned it after last year’s costume as the odd figure for Halloween.
“When the Grimace snow started building up and the Mets kept getting wins and wins and wins, I said, ‘What better place to travel than Citi Field,'” McDougall, a 41- year- old withdrew firefighter, told The News.
“Baseball’s a very unique sports in that you can use rousing cries”, added McDougall, who brought two of his five children to Tuesday’s activity. “They’ve used primates before and he animals, and the Mets simply stumbled upon Grimace. I only say, ‘If you’re a Mets lover, move with it.'”
However, Yankees fans were quick to embrace the “Rally Pimp” this winter, a fan named Max Wiener, whose appearance in vibrant dress coincided with an April get streak.
With Guy Fieri, Mike Piazza, Donovan Mitchell and Kenny “the Fleet” Smith among those in participation at a sold- out Citi Field on Tuesday, it was the Smirks who turned into the biggest stars.
” ittle kids are coming up, taking photographs of me”, Indart said. “It’s so cute. They’re hugging me. I’m giving them substantial- four. I’m hesitant to take it off because I don’t want them to see me without the head on.”
McDougall and Indart claimed the expense of dressing up in the hot suits was perhaps on a hot night with a first-pitched temperature of 84 levels.
“He’s kind of an oddball”, Indart, a Queens native now living in Lake Grove, N. Y., said of Grimace. “The Mets are kind of an odd. It’s hit or miss with the Mets. Often we win. Often we lose. Often we get these great stains.”