Let’s begin on the New York baseball scene.
Starting in Queens, Pete Alonso had an interesting reaction to a question about having a bit of a down season compared to his past years.
Alonso cited being on pace for close to 40 home runs and being an All-Star this season.
Was that the right way to respond to the question? Will Alonso’s next two months with the Mets determine what kind of deal he gets from them or another team in the offseason?
In The Bronx, Gleyber Torres was pulled from the game Friday for not hustling out a ball out of the box that he hit off the wall.
What usually would be a double ended up being just a long single. He then ended up being thrown out at the plate trying to score on an Anthony Volpe double.
Aaron Boone ended up pulling him before the fourth inning. Did Boone make the right call and was his explanation right?
And finally, former Mets outfielder Tommy Pham was traded from the White Sox to the Cardinals at the trade deadline last week.
Pham goes from the worst team in the sport to a team hanging around in the NL Wild Card race. Pham is always a great quote and very good with the media.
So it’s Alonso, Torres, Mets, Yankees and a conversation with Tommy Pham this week on a busy episode of “The Show” with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman.
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