PORT ST. LUCIE — You first noticed the impending heavyweight bout not on a ballpark’s marquee, but rather among the minutiae of the daily workout itinerary Wednesday morning, here at First Data Field:
At 11:40 in the morning, at this complex’s Field 6, Noah Syndergaard would throw live batting practice to a group of four hitters.
One of those hitters would be Peter Alonso.
Did anyone think to alert Statcast?
Allow me to give away the ending: No homers and one swing and miss in 10 pitches from Syndergaard, the veteran god of velocity, to Alonso, the rookie master of the exit velocity/launch angle exacta.