Steve Cohen heard Mets fans loud and clear Friday night — and it made him very happy.
During the Amazin’s 6-1 win over the Royals at Citi Field, fans loudly cheered for Francisco Lindor amid his brutal slump to start the season that saw him hit just .111.
And Lindor, for his part, responded to the cheers, going 1 for 3 with a single, a walk and a run scored as the Mets won their second straight game and sixth in the last eight games .
“Thank you Mets fans for your positivity tonight. I know the players felt it,” Cohen wrote on X on Friday evening.
Amid Lindor’s struggles to start the season, his wife, Katia Reguero Lindor, shared some direct direct messages she received last week that included both threats against the Silver Slugger-winning shortstop and their children.
One account viciously called Lindor a “fucking piece of shit” and wished “he and your kid would die screaming.”
Cohen last Saturday saw the call from Mets fans to support Lindor when the team returned to Citi Field.
Not only did he see what the fans were saying, but he fully endorsed the adoption of one of the team’s centerpieces.
“I love this idea,” Cohen wrote on X. “It worked in Philly with (Trea) Turner. Positivity goes a long way.
Turner, the Phillies’ shortstop, struggled for most of his first season in Philadelphia, but the fans decided to give him a standing ovation at Citizens Bank Park in August, and he turned his season around.
In August, the shortstop reached an OPS above 1.000 and he followed that up with a September/October OPS of .932, flipping the script on his season.
Lindor said hearing the cheers Friday night during his first at-bat against Michael Wacha made him feel like he was in the right place.
“I wasn’t expecting it at all, but it was really good,” Lindor said after the win. “It felt good to be able to come home and feel the love from the fans. When I play well or badly, it fills my heart.
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