LOS ANGELES — Pete Alonso smiles and gazes off into the distance. What’s his favorite part of hitting a home run?
“Feeling the ball come off the bat,” he muses. “Seeing the trajectory. And then once it leaves.”
It is pointed out to him that he has described the entire process of hitting a home run.
“Yeah,” he says, grinning. “The whole thing.”
All-Star week celebrates people who are the best in the world at what they do, and perhaps no one in the world is quite as best as what he does as the Mets first baseman is at launching bombs over and over again.