Johan lends a hand: Rehabbing Mets lefty boosts Brooklyn’s playoff hopes
Johan Santana showed up on Coney Island nearly three hours before his scheduled rehab start with the Class A short-season Cyclones on Sunday afternoon.
Apparently, that wasn’t nearly early enough for the two-time Cy Young winner to avoid running into the Brooklyn faithful, who packed MCU Park to the tune of 6,242 on what turned out to be a rain-shortened 8-0 victory over visiting Auburn for the re-energized Baby Bums.
“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Santana said of the legion of fans and well-wishers who showed up outside the ballpark along Surf Avenue for a glimpse of the 33-year-old Venezuelan left-hander. “You sign some autographs and make some people happy. That’s baseball. it’s good, the atmosphere [here] and everybody offered a lot of support.”