Earlier this summer, Jonah Tong posted a photo carousel on Instagram featuring several photos of himself wearing a Binghamton Rumble Ponies uniform with the caption, “Anyone know what a rumble pony is?” Maybe he figured it out over the next six starts, the only others he would make for Double-A Binghamton, but it might not be a question he needs an answer to.

Tong will make his big-league debut Friday night, pitching for the Mets at Citi Field in the second game of a three-game set against the Miami Marlins. The magnitude of the moment is not lost on Tong, a gregarious 22-year-old Canadian drafted in 2022. So far, he’s taking it in stride.

“If you had asked me at the beginning of the year if I thought that this was going to happen, I would tell you exactly what I’m going to tell you

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