In the seventh inning, he stepped in against reliever Jose Ruiz and took an up-and-in 97-mph fastball off the hand or elbow.
Alvarez hit two mammoth homers for the Mets in the first two games in Arizona, including a two-out game-tying blast in the ninth inning Wednesday.
In the Wednesday blast, he carried his bat a good chunk of the way down the first base line, and then, as the ball cleared the wall, Alvarez turned to the Mets’ dugout and flexed his muscles.tone things down in certain situations“[Cora] just said that emotions are good to have in a game, but let’s also keep in mind that at that point there was still a lot of game to be played since it was only a home run to tie the game,” Alvarez said through an interpreter before the Mets’ win.
“If it’s one of those things where we take the lead by two runs or three runs, it’s more appropriate to do, but at that point we had to kind of stay locked into the game.”“[Cora] pulled me aside [Thursday] when we were more relaxed and he just said, ‘We have to understand the situations of the game,’” Alvarez added. “It wasn’t in a bad way. He wasn’t getting on me. He wasn’t trying to teach me a lesson. It was just to give me some good advice to say I have got to zone back into the game.
Celebrations or not, Alvarez now has 16 homers this season, the second-most for a catcher in an age 21 season or younger, trailing only Hall of Famer Johnny Bench.
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