Pete Alonso could desire a redo on his postseason debut.
The Mets first baseman was anticipating his first style of playoff baseball on Friday evening, however he missed an early probability to make it well worth the wait in a 7-1 loss to the Padres in Sport 1 of the wild-card collection at Citi Subject.
Alonso completed the evening 1-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts. The cleanup hitter had loads of firm because the Mets struggled to mount a lot of something in opposition to Padres ace Yu Darvish and went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring place.
“It’s a tricky one,” Alonso stated. “Robust recreation at the moment for lots of us. However we gotta get again at it tomorrow.”
With the group nonetheless raucous within the first inning, regardless of the Mets trailing 2-0, Alonso stepped to the plate with one out and runners on the corners. The primary pitch to him from Yu Darvish was a 93 mph sinker on the interior half of the plate. He turned on it and crushed it for house run distance, however foul.
Alonso then swung by means of a 91 mph cutter within the zone earlier than watching one other cutter proper down the center get referred to as for strike three.
As a substitute of sending the group into a fair greater frenzy, and getting the Mets again within the recreation, Alonso let some air out of the constructing.
It didn’t get significantly better in Alonso’s second at-bat, main off the fourth inning. He acquired right into a 1-2 rely after which took a mighty hack on a middle-in 94 mph fastball, putting out and sending his bat flying into the netting over the Padres’ dugout.
“You simply gotta flush it,” stated Alonso, who singled within the fifth and flew out within the eighth. “We've a problem and we’re going to face it head on and we’re going to run in direction of it.”
On the eve of Sport 1, Alonso stated he hoped the Citi Subject crowd would go “buck wild” and be “rowdy” all through the evening. The 41,621 followers in attendance obliged within the early innings, however the Mets gave them little to cheer for as the sport went on.
ILast weekend, in an NL East showdown in opposition to the Braves, Alonso went 3-for-10, however had no RBIs or extra-base hits. The Mets will nearly definitely want greater than that — and greater than what he supplied Friday evening — to have an opportunity to show the collection round starting Saturday.
“We simply gotta dig our heels in and be able to combat,” Alonso stated. “I do know that we'll. I do know now we have our work lower out for us, however I’m assured we’re going to be able to go tomorrow.”
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