Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman recap the New York slugger’s monumental homerun to lift the Mets past the Brewers and into the Divisional Series. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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And he comes up with runners on 1st and 3rd and 1 out and it's like he just rolls over a ball.

I mean, he's not fleet of foot or, nor hand nor leg.

There is no fleetness in his body.

He rolls one over.

That's double play.

That's the season.

Thanks for coming.

That's the, maybe the career, the tenure of Alonzo and Queens.

And I'm watching this game at home, my parents house with my cousin and my aunt and uncle who live in New York and who are all Mets fans.

Ok?

And I turn to him and I say, you see how this is gonna go, right?

And he goes, I see how it's gonna go.

And I said, but what if he does?

And he goes, what if he does?

And Pete did Pete Alonso?

Ok. Let's talk about him as a character for a second.

P as a Dork.

Pete's a bit of a doofus.

I don't mean that in a negative way, Pete is Jolly.

Pete is not like every other professional baseball player.

Pete is not cool.

I would say Pete is not particularly cool even after he rips this home run his celebration around the bases is like adorable more than it is exhilarating if that makes sense.

Right.

And for Pete, who his entire time in Queens has been living in the shadow of his rookie season, which was, he's never been that good in a regular season since he came up in 2019.

And for him to have this moment hitting a Devin Williams changeup on the outer half, lasering it over the fence in right field over the outstretched jump of Soul Frelich for a three run.

Ding dong giving the New York Mets the lead.

It was gasp inducing.

That's exactly right.

Um, I, I gasped, I, I kind of not shrieked but like I like kind of had to, I, I emitted some noise that was not, you know, it's not excitement, right, because we're not Mets fans, but it's just like the, oh my God.

It's like, 000 no.

Who, who, um, I've been saying all season as we've been spending all of our time.

Totally understandably talking about Francisco Lindor that at some point, the focus would turn back to Pete Alonso as his free agency got nearer and nearer with every game and as the Mets postseason odds went up and down and up and down and up and down and Pete's playing worse and worse and worse as the Mets season is coming down and it's like we're still having a good time because the Mets have this amazing chance and everyone's having fun and Lyor is amazing and all these things, but at some point, we're gonna still be talking about Pete Alonso because he was, he was the story coming into this Mets season and for it to come back around to him and for us.

Yeah, I mean, boy, there are a lot of even though that, that drop pop up didn't end up leading to more runs.

Just the, you know, 15 minutes afterwards was just, he was a familiar later.

It was like, thanks, thanks for nothing, Pete.

You know, like that's, you don't, it's not hard to find those tweets and then to do this to hit this, go ahead home run, the first opposite field home run, Devin Williams has ever allowed to a right handed hitter was again only possible when you have the kind of just raw strength that he does.

And it was, it was unbelievable.

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