Mark winds did not make minus words.
Hey, do not deviate because of the belief that he was close.
He still felt the same for his swing, a good feeling, just although the third base hit alone .145 During his first 17 games, and his number of home runs remained at zero …
… Until his first turn to bat on Thursday night.
Winds thought his drought would end at some point soon. “Only a matter of time,” he said to the post succinctly before the 4-1 victory of the Mets over the cardinals in Citi Field.
That “matter of time” turned out to be about four hours later.
He reduced a quick 338 feet ball and put it right inside the right field lack post to begin the second entry, finding some validation on his night of 1 by 4, since the quality changes and the contact finally led something to the other side of the fence.
“It’s a good feeling, sure,” Winds said.
The numbers had been dazzling, given what winds orchestrated in its first sample of the postseason last October, five home runs in 13 games.
His statistics from 2025 were Jarren, since he also made 27 times in 111 regular seasonal games in 2024 as well.
Would a homer lift a weight of the shoulders? “Maybe,” he said before the game.
Would you fix them to get the first one in which others followed shortly after? “I hope yes,” he added winds.
It has generated a lot of hard contact, the 11 axis of the balls that it has put into play has left its bat with an exit speed of at least 100 mph.
Twenty -six of their 51 balls at stake have presented an output speed of at least 93 mph.
But entering Thorsday, winds brought an average bat of .188 in balls at stake, which marked the lowest of his career, below .324 last year, and the lowest number 17 in the largest.
The successes, and specifically the homers, simply did.
Then, everything improvised to create a big difference in the moments that winds produced in October, when he died twice in the defeat of game 2 of the Mets against the Philis in the NLDs three times in the nuds, the Dodgers.
The postseason became the laboratory for its rupture, its jump to stardom, its stage to produce in the most important moments.
And maybe on Thursday, while rounding the bases in the second entrance and pumped his fist, marked a turning point towards that.
“It’s just a matter of time for him,” said Francisco Lindor, who acknowledges that winds “100 percent” needed that Homer. “You have to continue the course. Keep grinding, keeping your head down and at the end of the year, hopefully will hit its 30, 40 home runs.”
