By metstradamus | July 3, 2020 9:24 pm
We’ve all been depressed about what’s going on in the world regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, and baseball has become collateral damage. The 2020 baseball season is set to begin in late July. Until then, you can read this blog in the alternate: the one where global pandemics were a myth and baseball was around no matter what. We’re imagining the 2020 Mets season as if everything was normal. Enjoy these works of fiction.
This battle was lost,
Pete Alonso went 0-for-3 against a very fired up Chris Paddack on Friday night. But the real drama came in the first inning, after Paddack struck out Alonso swinging after he gave up base hits to Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil to start the game.
It was obvious that Paddack was probably a little too fired up for his own good when Alonso found air on a 3-2 pitch at the letters. The crowd was hitting a crescendo at that point (pace yourselves, amateurs!) and Paddack responded with a fist pump (pace yourself, amateur!) that whipped the crowd into a little bit more of a frenzy. It was almost like when two people have no beef with each other, or one which had long since subsided, when a third party whispers “hey, you hear what that guy said about your mama?” in each of their ears. It was Paddack vs. Alonso, but it also seemed to be Paddack vs the Citi Field crowd at that point.
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