It's all been a little bit surreal for Pete Alonso.
Pete Alonso's dream season rolls on with Home Run Derby title, All-Star Game: 'I'm living a fantasy right now'CLEVELAND – It has all been a little bit surreal for Pete Alonso, be it demolishing Darryl Strawberry’s New York Mets rookie record for home runs in less than half a season, to powering his way into - and winning - the Home Run Derby, and even to piece of artwork a boy named Nico handed him that depicts him as a polar bear, a sketch now proudly affixed to his apartment...
This is all part of Alonso’s new reality, one he shared with the world Monday night when he walked off through three straight rounds of the Home Run Derby, toppling fellow rookie Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and commanding the attention of a national TV audience. So it might seem odd to Alonso that Goldschmidt and Votto, each with six All-Star appearances, are free this week while Alonso joins Josh Bell and Freddie Freeman as the power trio repping the NL at first base.
“He said, ‘This is you, and this is me,’” Alonso recounts. “I said, ‘Do you want me to sign it?’” And he said, ‘No, this is for you to have.’ I thought it was touching.Such is the humbling power of a platform forged on longballs. That belief was reinforced after the Mets told him he’d made the opening-day roster, and veterans on the club told him to ignore the fact he hadn’t done a thing at the big league level.
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