This pit of scorching snakes was no match Monday night for the world’s greatest Polar Bear exhibit.
As well as the Diamondbacks have played over the past two weeks to surge into serious NL wild-card contention, there are just games where Pete “Polar Bear” Alonso places this Mets lineup on his back and refuses to let it fail.
On this night, the slugging first baseman cleared the left-field fence twice, giving Jacob deGrom the necessary runs in a 3-1 victory at Citi Field that snapped the Mets’ two-game skid. The Mets entered the night four games behind the Cubs — who played later in San Diego — for the NL’s second wild card.