The rookie catcher, playing in his 34th game of the season, got out of his crouch and charged to the mound, picking a mound visit over an automatic ball.
With two outs in the seventh inning of the Mets’ win over the Phillies on Tuesday, the pitch clock was running down.
The two briefly talked, even if they couldn’t quite understand each other, and Alvarez returned to his spot behind the plate.JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST Add overall defensive acumen to the list of compliments paid the catcher who has played as if he is much older than his 21 years of age. Alvarez entered play as the sixth-rated catcher in baseball in terms of turning borderline pitches into strikes.
And Sherlock called his work ethic “great.” On Wednesday, Alvarez was on the field 4 ¹/₂ hours before the game to work on catching pop-ups while Sherlock fed balls into a machine.
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