CLEVELAND — For winning the 2019 Home Run Derby Monday night at Progressive Field, the Mets’ Pete Alonso gained a $1 million prize, a cool, ginormous medallion from Daddy Yankee and enough social-media mentions to feed a Kardashian for a week.
For serving up the 57 gopher balls that Alonso hit into the stratosphere, Derek Morgan got a supporting role in a fantasy. And that, he insisted, easily sufficed.
“Honestly, just to be here, that’s all that matters to me,” Morgan, Alonso’s second cousin, said in a news conference as he sat next to the champion.