Howie Rose

Alonso on his way to home plate.

They're waiting for him.

He hits the plate.

He is first congratulated by Nimmo, hugged by Lindor.

There are a dozen Mets waiting for him outside the dugout.

Pete Alonso keeps this fairytale season going with the fairytale swing of his career.

Thank you, Evan.

Thank you, Tiki.

It's great to be with you.

Can I pick your brain on that for a moment?

Because I am the worst athlete of all time.

It's so hard for me to do anything athletic when I'm involved in any kind of competition.

You, though, as a former football player at the highest level, have that innate ability.

So I kind of feel that I get up for those moments the same as you probably did.

Can you sense a correlation there?

We live for it.

I think any broadcaster...

who's blessed to do what I've been doing in terms of play-by-play, just looking at it through that narrow prism, would tell you the same thing.

We live for the big moments.

And some of us are just afforded them more frequently than others, you know, depending on things that are out of our control.