“Just need to give him about two pots of coffee for before and a case of Bud Lite for after, and he said he’s good to go,” Alonso said.Īlonso hit 74 total home runs in last year’s Derby at Denver’s Coors Field and beat Baltimore’s Trey Mancini 23-22 in the final round. I don’t think anyone has more fun than I do, especially when it comes to this event.”ĭave Jauss, who was the Mets’ bench coach and is now a Washington Nationals special assistant, will pitch to Alonso for the second straight Derby.

“I have a really good plan to go into it and, again, I have just so much fun. “It’s a really fun event, and it’s going to be super exciting,” Alonso said before the Mets played at Atlanta on Monday night.

The New York first baseman said this week he will be one of nine participants in Monday’s competition at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. ATLANTA - Mets slugger Pete Alonso will try to become the first player to win the All-Star Home Run Derby three consecutive times against a field that will include the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols, Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber, the Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr.

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