“He takes pride in his defense, in his baserunning, driving in runs and, regardless of how he’s gotten here, when you look up and see 100 RBI next to his name in the middle of August, it is impressive.
“He’s handled it so professionally because he holds himself to such a high standard and he wants to be everything for us every night,” Showalter said. That stat alone is testament to how dominant Alonso has been all year, and he earned special praise from Mets manager Buck Showalterafter the game.Īnd Pete Alonso has his 100th RBI of the season! /tlkNTmy7h1 The previous record was 122 games, which was held by Carlos Beltran (2006), Mike Piazza(2000), and Robin Ventura (1999). That’s quite the accomplishment and Alonso became the quickest Met to reach 100 RBIs in a season, doing it in just 120 games. While the play itself won’t live long in the memory, it will forever hold a lot of significance for Alonso given that it proved to be his 100th RBI of the season. They did a good job of manufacturing runs all night and running the bases well to apply pressure on the defense, something which paid off in the top of the first as Alonso reached first on a fielder’s choice to score Brandon Nimmo and give the Mets an early lead. The entire Mets lineup did a much better job of creating gritty at-bats against the Phillies, and they went back to clever contact and putting the ball in play. We didn’t really face a whole lot and I felt we did a really good job one through nine of controlling the at-bats and really capitalizing on the few mistakes they gave us to hit.” I felt (on Friday) we just did a really good job of capitalizing on stuff in the zone. I know it is a really tough pill to swallow but you’ve just got to tip your hat. “Sometimes it is tougher than others and I thought the Braves did a really good job of pitching against us. “I mean, it is the same job every single day,” Alonso said.
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Baseball is more about failure than success and, for Alonso, it was about flushing the Braves series quickly and moving on to a new day. It was the rare instance in which the two-time Home Run Derby Champion just couldn’t get anything going offensively, and he entered Friday having failed to hit a home run in 54 straight at-bats. After being shut down in the tough series loss to the Atlanta Braves earlier in the week, the slugger and his bat exploded to help the Mets take the opening game of a four-game series against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night.Īlonso was successfully shut down by the Braves pitching staff in Atlanta, being limited to just one hit and two RBI in 15 plate appearances, while being struck out six times. We’re firmly in the dog days of summer but Pete Alonsocontinues to pile up statistics that you wouldn’t expect to see until October.
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