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Citi Field is on fire and the Mets kept playing (Video)

ByAmy Kaplan|
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 23: A general view of the field during a voluntary workout at Citifield ahead of the World Series on October 23, 2015 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Benjamin Solomon/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 23: A general view of the field during a voluntary workout at Citifield ahead of the World Series on October 23, 2015 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Benjamin Solomon/Getty Images)

Citi Field is on fire and the Mets are still playing.

Nothing is going to stop the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves from playing some good old fashioned baseball … not even the ballpark being on fire. On Sunday afternoon video surfaced of black clouds of smoke from the outer walls of Citi Field, perhaps from the stores on the streets below.

But the game moved on.

At first glance, it’s hard to actually tell where the fire is burning but the smoke was clearly inching its way inside the fan-less ballpark.

This isn’t the first Citi Field fire

This isn’t the first time there has been a fire in or around Citi Field either. In May 2018 a fire broke out in a display case in the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. This was a much more serious fire as it was indoors, thankfully there was “minimal damage” and no injuries according to NBC NY.

The Mets lost the game, to no fault of the fire, but the fans sure did have a field day with their fire-puns.

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