MIAMI — Pete Alonso has come back from the brink before. But this kind of night on a near must-win Game 160 looked like a return to that brink. In the inning that very well could haunt the Mets all offseason, Alonso’s glove could not come through. In a couple of innings in which the Mets might have been able …
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Xabi Alonso began life in La Liga as Real Madrid manager with a 1-0 win over Osasuna at the Santiago Bernabéu on Tuesday night. They may have secured victory, but did they impress? Xabi Alonso may have played 74 league games at the Santiago Bernabéu, but he experienced his first from the dugout on Tuesday night, along with all the …
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Now the questions become, how many and for how long? Pete Alonso moved Darryl Strawberry into his all-time Mets homer record rearview mirror on Tuesday night. He did it in style. Not just with the franchise record-setting 253rd homer, a two-run blast in the third inning off Atlanta’s Spencer Strider, but No. 254 as well in the sixth off Austin …
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