The kid is a star, a Made For New York star, a shining All-Star amidst all the Mets darkness, and on Monday night, there he was at Progressive Stadium, with his proud parents in the stands, participating in the Home Run Derby he dreamed about watching it with them as a boy his Tampa home.
“It’s gonna be a lot of fun, just to watch him live a dream,” Alonso’s father Peter told the Post. “This is something that he has watched on TV, and obviously he likes hitting the ball and so forth, so it’s gonna be very surreal.