We have all known and admired Pete Alonso‘s skills and prowess, both as a person and a player on and off the diamond, since the start of this April in 2019. He burst onto the scene with the New York Mets unafraid to show his childlike innocence, charm, and affinity for the game which made us all fall for his personality based on his whimsical quotes and humor-filled observations we heard utter from his mouth during press interviews.
But what the rookie phenom did this past Saturday, September 28th, 2019, will go down in both the franchise and baseball’s history as one of the greatest rookie baseball seasons and moments of all-time.