Move over Grimace.
Haliey Welch, better known as Hawk Tuah Girl, has celebrated the Mets’ recent run to the playoffs on social media after controversially throwing out the first pitch at an August game.
The Mets were criticized for giving Welch, who rose to internet fame over her describing a sexual act in an interview on the street, a platform to grow her fame and to be associated with the team.
Welch, though, has had some fun with the drama, posting a series of Photoshopped images of herself in Mets moments as they made the playoffs with a win over the Braves on Monday and followed with a Game 1 wild-card victory over the Brewers on Tuesday.
“We were pretty excited to throw out the first pitch,” said Welch, recently noting that her appearance was in concert with a program the team was doing for vet dogs, on her new “Talk Tuah” podcast.
“Had a really good day, whole team was nice. And then we leave and I see everybody like posting stuff. ‘Why the f—k is she here?’”
Grimace has been a mascot of sorts for the Mets since the McDonald’s character throwing out the first pitch came just as the team started an early-season run of sucess.
Similar can be said for Welch, though it did not start that way.
The Mets lost 7-6 to the A’s on that day, Aug, 15, after leading 5-0 to fall to 62-59 with their postseason hopes fading.
However, the Mets closed with 27 wins in their final 41 games and claimed a wild-card berth on a rain-delayed last day of the season.