Pete Alonso and the Mets are taking a playoff pumpkin with them on their playoff run back to the Big Apple. These Cinderella Mets -- who appropriately use orange in their color scheme -- hope their carriage ride through the postseason won’t turn into a pumpkin at midnight any time soon as they chase their first World Series championship since 1986.

This is the playoff pumpkin. Pete Alonso picked it himself this week at a Wisconsin pumpkin patch. It's now another good-luck charm for the Mets. pic.twitter.com/l7ewDnvu6w Pete Alonso holding the “Playoff Pumpkin.” He picked it himself last weekend. pic.twitter.com/82bNP1WefO

The origin of the purported rally gourd goes like this, according to Alonso: A week ago Thursday, when the Mets had an impromptu day off in Milwaukee after escaping rainy Atlanta, he and his wife, Haley, went to a farm in Wisconsin. He bought a pumpkin.