NY Post · Aug 5, 2019
Jeff McNeil may add new nickname as homers keep coming
PITTSBURGH — Pete Alonso was running around with a Jeff McHits T-shirt on the other day.
When asked about McNeil’s prowess against the Pirates after Sunday’s 13-2 wipeout by the Mets at PNC Park, Alonso smiled and offered some other T-shirt suggestions of his own for McNeil, telling The Post, “They don’t call him Squirrel DiMaggio for nothing. Squirrel Williams.’’
He then yelled those names out across the clubhouse.
McNeil, of course, is nicknamed The Squirrel. Hearing the banter from his spot two lockers down, McNeil joined in on the fun, offering his own T-shirt suggestion with a smile: “Squirrel Ruth.’’
Alonso had two more suggestions: “Squirrel Mantle … Squirrel Cobb.’’