The New York Mets will bring back their black jerseys for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.

Luis Severino, who will start for the Mets, has decided to wear the black jersey with white pants for the first NLCS game at Citi Field since 2015.

In February 2021, Rustin Dodd of The Athletic noted that the Mets' black jersey was the best-selling jersey at the Shea Stadium team store during the 2005 season.

Not long after Steve Cohen purchased the Mets in November 2020, he teased the possible return of the alternate jerseys:

“There is a lot of discussion about these black jerseys. It seems like there are passionate people who want it and then people who actually don't want it. I think it's probably more because people want it than they don't want it. I haven't spoken to the players about it. I want to make sure they're interested. And maybe we'll do that every now and then, just to add variety.

Shortly after Francisco Lindor was traded to the Mets in January 2021, Cohen again teased bringing back the old look:

Cohen finally delivered to his teases when the Mets wore them against the Cincinnati Reds on July 30, 2021, and for every remaining Friday at home for the remainder of the season.

The Mets have continued to wear their black jerseys for Friday home games most of the time since 2021, but this year's jerseys were met with some fan backlash due to a design change that eliminated the white outline.

The Mets most notably wore their black jerseys during their run to the World Series in 2000. They lost in five games to the New York Yankees in the Fall Classic.

Severino and the Mets will face Walker Buehler and the Dodgers in Game 3 at Citi Field on Wednesday at 8:08 p.m. ET. The series is tied 1-1 after the two teams split the first two games at Dodger Stadium.