Alonso hit below the cleanup spot for the first time in almost four years on Monday.
According to the Mets' slugger, manager Carlos Mendoza told him about the lineup change during the team's flight to St. Louis; Mendoza wanted to “see what the lineup is like with you at five, just wanna see what we could do just to give us a different look.”
Pete Alonso says Carlos Mendoza talked to him on the plane to St. Louis about hitting 5th in the order Regardless, that performance dropped his RISP batting average and OPS this season to .198 and .690, respectively; he has a .198/.331/.359 slash line in 130 plate appearances in these scenarios. Prior to this year, Alonso's lowest RISP average was .234 , and his lowest OPS with RISP was .824 .
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