Grimace. The famous McDonald’s advertising mascot has won the hearts of Mets fans since he threw out the first pitch at a June game and the team’s early season bad fortune quickly turned around.

At the beginning of the season, the team was in a major slump. But after a large and friendly purple character named Grimace ...

What some might describe as a plush purple personified pear, Grimace is the fast food-baseball crossover that sent the Mets on a consequential winning streak that contributed to a postseason ...