By his own admission, Pete Alonso didn’t even get all of it — but the ball still might be travelling if he did.
The Mets’ rookie first baseman crushed his first Citi Field home run in the clutch Saturday, getting a pitch off the end of his bat and sending it 427 feet to the batter’s eye — the first of back-to-back homers with Robinson Cano — to spark a 6-5 comeback win over the Nationals.
“I caught some barrel on it, but I didn’t have the best swing on it,” Alonso said. “I was honestly surprised it went over the fence.