GARY COHEN ROCKS THE METS

The Men in the Booth Know Their Baseball and Their Music

It was the home run call that rock and rolled Mets World.

August 5, 2019. The New York Mets are trailing the Florida Marlins 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning at Citi Field in Queens. Michael Conforto hits a tying home run, enhanced by Mets announcer Gary Cohen's trademark call of jubilation, "It's out of here!"

But Cohen and the Mets were just getting started. The next hitter, Pete Alonso, the Mets slugger who that season set a major league rookie record with 53 home runs, also hits it out of here. Back-to-back home runs. The crowd is going nuts. Cohen: "Pete Alonso gives the Mets the lead. A laser beam!"

As Alonso rounds the bases, Gary Cohen shouts out amid the joyous noise, "Scooter and the Big Man bust the city in half!"

Cell phones started buzzing in that larger-than-you'd think universe where Mets fandom and rock love intersect. My daughter Sasha texts: Did you hear that? People pause to frame the moment: a home run call that quotes Bruce Springsteen's 1975 track from Born to…