Saturday was shaping up to be the sort of 5-3 Mets loss you instantly forget about, until the bottom of the eighth inning.
found the back of Pete Alonso’s head
Mets pitching did not retaliate, but Alonso’s anger was shared team-wide, but the fracas was quickly broken up. Pete Alonso lies on the ground after getting hit in the back of the neck by a pitch during the eighth inning of the Mets’ 5-3 loss to the Angels.Yet again the Mets are crossing their fingers regarding Alonso, who was forced to the injured list in June after being struck by a pitch in his left wrist in Atlanta.Alonso has been hit an NL-leading 18 times, and the Mets have been drilled 84 times — only trailing the Mariners — after they were plunked a record 112 times last season.
“You get to the point where intention doesn’t really play into it as much,” he said. “My job is to try to keep a sense of reality and safety of everybody.
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