New York Mets tweet out photo featuring sex toy

May 7 (UPI) -- It didn't take long for the Twitterverse to point out a sex toy in a player's locker in a photo posted Friday by the New York Mets.

The Mets posted the picture following its 8-7 win against the Miami Marlins Friday at Citi Filed.

First baseman T.J. Rivera played hero for the team, going 2-for-4 with three RBI. Rivera had the first RBI of the contest, on a solo home run in the first inning. His 2-run double in the seventh tied the game at 7-7.

After the tight contest, the Mets posted a photo of Rivera standing in front of his locker and wearing a crown. But the photographer must not have seen a sex toy in the background, sitting in catcher Kevin Plawecki's locker. Fans on social media quickly caught the blunder, reposting and screenshotting it so it would live on even after the Mets deleted the photo.

The caption for the photo was a checklist. It read: "First homer ✓, Game-tying double ✓, take home the [picture of a crown] ✓. Have yourself a night, @TJ_Rivera_!"

"Honestly, I don't really know how to handle this one," Plawecki told the New York Daily News Saturday. "This is kind of unbelievable, really."

"We've got some good pranksters in here, that's for sure," Plawecki said. "I mean what can you do, just kind of laugh this one off."

In the next Mets player of the game photo, the franchise opted to snap a photo of Jay Bruce wearing the crown against an empty wall.

Mets manager Terry Collins is unhappy with his team's maturity as of late. The Mets suspended pitcher Matt Harvey for three days without pay for breaking team rules, but have not disclosed which rules. Harvey will miss his start Sunday against the Marlins. The Mets are not saying if Harvey was behind the Plawecki incident, according to NJ.com.

"You've got to take the entire club into perspective, it's the big picture of things," Collins told NJ.com. "In order to sometimes control things you've got to make tough decisions and this is one of them."

"We're going to move past it and hopefully in a short period of time we can get back to normal," Collins said.

The Mets (14-15) have won three consecutive games and six of its last eight games, following a six-game losing streak. The franchise had lost 10 of 11 games at one point last month.