Pete Alonso had a few things to say to Bryce Elder after the Mets star hit a moonshot off the Braves pitcher after missing a pitch earlier in the at-bat.
New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso entered Tuesday night's game against the rival Braves, the first of a three-game set in Atlanta, with the MLB lead in home runs at 21. And in his second at-bat against Bryce Elder, the NL leader in ERA entering the night, he missed adding to his total on the first pitch.
Elder hung a slider over the middle of the plate and Alonso failed to take advantage of that. But when the young Braves hurler did it again to the power-hitting first baseman, the Polar Bear didn't miss as he tattooed the meatball 448 feet over the left center field fence.
And as he got to the dugout, Alonso assumed that Elder and the Braves speak Polar Bear as he started chirping the Atlanta starter, telling him to "throw it again" in reference to the pair of hanging sliders.
NY Mets: Pete Alonso trash talks Bryce Elder, Braves after moonshot HR
It should be an unwritten rule in baseball that, if you hit a baseball 448 feet, you can say whatever you want. Alonso obviously believes that to be true as well.
Alonso's mammoth blast represented the second of two two-run home runs that the Mets got off of Elder in the third inning of Tuesday night's game, which started nearly two hours after the initially scheduled first pitch due to a rain delay. That answered a second-inning homer from Ozzie Albies and put the Mets up 4-1 early on.
Considering that New York entered this crucial series 5.5 games behind the NL East-leading Braves, they needed their stars to come to Atlanta fired up and ready to make a statement. Pete Alonso clearly got that memo — and he's not afraid to tell Elder or anyone about it.
