Mets ride Pete Alonso’s power, stellar defense to series win over Dodgers
NY Post
A consistent problem in the early going — one acknowledged by their president of baseball operations, David Stearns — has been the Mets’ lackluster defense.
More recently, the club has encountered issues with Juan Soto’s hustling and Pete Alonso’s disappearing power.
Yet viewers who checked in on a national broadcast Sunday night saw the Mets beat the Dodgers largely because of their gloves, Soto’s legs and Alonso’s might.
An all-around bounce back effort added up to a well-played 3-1 victory over the most exciting team in baseball, sealing the series in front of 41,917 Mets and Shohei Ohtani fans at Citi Field.
The Mets (32-21) snapped a two-series skid and are still breathing on the other side of a Yankees-Red Sox-Dodgers gauntlet, having won four of nine.
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Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.
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