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After Ubering Through Traffic Well Into the 3rd Inning, Mets' Call-Up Rajai Davis Put the Game Away With an 8th Inning Homer in His First At-Bat

5/23/2019

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First career at-bat in a #Mets uniform.@rajai11davis delivers in a BIG way. pic.twitter.com/tDMqswYnxe

— New York Mets (@Mets) May 23, 2019

Rajai Davis on his long Uber ride from Lehigh Valley, PA to Flushing □□ pic.twitter.com/UPUF42ySRg

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 23, 2019

Here is Uber driver Jason, the true MVP of tonight's game □

(h/t Jason -- Facebook) pic.twitter.com/zSirUfjeDl

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 23, 2019

Rajai Davis did not arrive at Citi Field until the 3rd inning after taking an Uber over.

Davis no idea how to get to the clubhouse. And then hit a huge, game-sealing home run. pic.twitter.com/dfU1J5agtJ

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 23, 2019

This just feels like far too positive a development. A player on the Mets showed up extraordinarily late only to make an immediate impact on the game that he was stuck listening to in traffic throughout the first three innings? Like, the New York Mets? That seems very off-brand for a team who somehow made on-brand a slugger fracturing his ankle falling off an undisclosed animal while already on the 60-day IL...

To be clear, it is multiple fractures of Cespedes’ right ankle, suffered during a “violent fall” off a non-horse at his ranch. There you go.

— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) May 20, 2019

On second thought, I suppose it is quite fitting that it took someone traveling up from the minors, by any desperate means necessary, as an unexpected injury replacement to make a major impact for a team that can barely walk without finding themselves wounded. The player who has spent the least amount of time surrounded by what is both figuratively and literally a long suffering organization that has every right to be suspicious of the sky falling actually makes for the most likely subject for a five-star feel good story. The Mets might be cursed by terrible luck and a worse training staff but even they need to give a guy a proper warm-up and more than a couple innings spent in their jersey to brush the bloom from his rose or break a bone from his body.

The mental image of Rajai Davis' sucking down free waters and anxiously looking at the clock from the backseat of someone else's car as his driver stopped and started his way through New York City traffic is relatable for Queens' natives. The type of random and rare moment that makes you smile, shake your head, and appreciate the silliness of sports, well, not so much.  
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