Francisco Lindor showed a little extra emotion after his latest home run heroics. Lindor flipped his bat stylishly, then pumped his fist as he began his trek around the bases. The most underrated Mets superstar deserved every ounce of that mini celebration. His homers all seem like big ones. But this might be his biggest yet this wonderful year.
BOSTON — An emotional and improbable and cardiac-arrest-inducing two games in TD Garden ended like this: a small pocket of Knicks fans chanting obscenities at the Celtics after the rest of the crowd dispersed, a Boston cheerleader bawling in the hallway with her glammed-up coworkers chasing behind and, finally and fittingly, a fire alarm in the arena that started during postgame interviews and prompted mass evacuation.