SAN DIEGO — Give Pete Alonso credit. The kid still cares.
How many Mets fans can say the same?
Completely understandable of that latter group, to be clear. If you watched the Mets get dominated by Padres rookie Chris Paddack on Monday night to the tune of a 4-0 loss at Petco Park, their fourth loss in four tries on this road trip that gives the Mets an overall 16-19 record, you’d have to be more blindly optimistic than Chris Elliott at the bachelor auction in “Groundhog Day” to think Mickey Callaway’s group will be just fine.