The woman who frantically screamed “Don’t swing at everything” to the Mets’ Starling Marte before he struck out with the bases loaded has been revealed — and is proud of her viral moment.
Woodside, Queens native Julie Booth had no idea she was being filmed, or that the four words she shouted during the Mets loss on Thursday would go viral — until she checked her phone after the game.
“It was like 50 text messages. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, is my house on fire?’” she told The Post.
The texts informed her that her moment had been played on Mets cable-TV station SNY.
The St. Francis Prep alum then ran into former high school classmates in the parking lot, who confirmed she was on television.
But it was an hour after she got to her Middle Village home — and learned she made it on Jomboy Media’s Twitter page — that she realized how popular her impassioned plea had become.
“My husband’s like, ‘Arguably, this is the proudest moment of our marriage,’” she said.
Booth said she tends to be outspoken at sporting events.
“If I’m getting heated and it’s a critical moment . . . really I have no filter,” she said.
“If you’re a Met fan, even if you’re not a Met fan, maybe you’re chuckling right now. But the team’s tanking. So it’s pretty terrible.”
Although speedy outfielder Marte is one of her favorite players, Booth feels his season has been “lackluster” — and his performance on Thursday illustrated that.
“That was just flat out not trying . . . I was close enough to know. Most guys would have not swung at two of those pitches in that situation,” she said.
Marte came to bat with two outs, bases loaded, in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the Mets down by a run, 3-2, to the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Brewers’ closer was wild, yet Marte proceeded to swing at a ball far out of the strike zone to end the game.
“I feel like he’s just done. He wanted to go home. I mean, Devin Williams . . .couldn’t find the strike zone. You had Canha 90 feet away. You could have at least tied it.”
She read Marte’s response to her reaction in The Post: “He said, ‘I have no regrets. Fans can say what they want, they’re not at the plate.’”
But she knows what she saw from her seats behind home.
“I was pretty damn close. I was so close that I felt the dirt on my cheeks. They were balls,” she said.
“I have a funny suspicion that he definitely heard me. I mean, I think people in the upper deck probably heard me . . . but he didn’t hear the right thing cause he didn’t care, he was swinging for the fences.”
The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
“I probably heard from over 100 people that I haven’t seen or heard from in quite some time,” she said. “One of my best friends, she’s got a newborn and she’s like, ‘I haven’t parented my newborn all day because I’ve just been reading the comments.’”
Others commented on her resemblance to certain A-Listers.
“I got Julianne Moore; I got Michelle Pfeiffer,” she said.
“Jodie Foster’s another one. They’re like, ‘Jodie Foster’s a Met fan.’”
The 41-year-old has been a lifelong Mets fan. “Gary Carter was my idol growing up. I was 5 years old when the ’86 Mets won the World Series,” she explained.
Although the Mets haven’t reached out yet, she is willing to speak to Marte.
“I’d love to be like, ‘Listen, bro, no hard feelings. You were one of my favorite players last year, but dude, you gotta wake up, man.’”
Some Twitter users have also called for Booth to step in as the team’s hitting coach — a job she is willing to take on.
“Absolutely I would,” she said.
“I mean at the very least, I would be the clubhouse rally girl or the motivational speaker or the Queens tough love specialist — maybe that can be my title.”
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