About three hours before the first pitch of his first game at Citi Field as a visiting player, Pete Alonso walked into the batting cage outside the Mets clubhouse, on the home side. Visiting players rarely, if ever, wander that deep into enemy territory. But, as became clear immediately, this was no usual visiting player.
“The [redacted] polar bear!” Francisco Alvarez exclaimed, his gerund of choice not fit for print.
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He opened his arms wide and gave Alonso a hug, which is exactly how everyone at Citi Field treated him Monday.
The irony, of course, almost goes without saying: The only people at Citi Field who seemed to think the…
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