Here comes the offense

Morning Dose: Tuesday, April 1

☀️ Good Morning:

There’s a reason why we didn’t spend much time discussing the offense on Monday, noting:

Small sample size insanity: Again… Again… it’s three games. The offense could breakout for 37 runs over the next three and none of this matters.

How about seven runs in one inning? Or 10 in the first game?

If you want consistent scoring, watch basketball.

Baseball is a game of ups and downs, slumps and hot streaks. Where a two-time Silver Slugger can strikeout 15 times in his first 19 at bats. And where a team who mustered only 12 hits in the season’s first three games can find every possible way to score the next day.

The Amazins found offensive freedom in Miami, and they are going to need a lot of planes to remove the Mets fans who invaded loadDepot Park.

Meanwhile, Atlanta lost again. They are 0-5 and have scored a grand total of eight runs this season, including just one in their last 31 innings. They also learned on Monday that outfielder Jurickson Profar tested positive for a banned substance and will be suspended for 80 games.

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No topic generated more key punches than Pete Alonso this offseason. And that’s saying something in a winter when Juan Soto signed the richest contract in sports.

For as much as Soto stole the spotlight, Alonso was always an accompanying story. Could he find someone willing to meet his contract demands? Would the Mets really move on from a franchise star? Who would protect Soto in the lineup?

For David Stearns, it worked out perfectly. Nobody met the Polar Bear’s asking price, so the Mets didn’t need to, but they were able to bring him back for at least one more season so he could do things like this:

Facing Cal Quantrill for the third time, Alonso wouldn’t give in. He took two healthy swings in his first at-bat (ending in a pop up), remained patient in his second at-bat (swinging on a 3–0 count to punch a single), and refused to swing out of the strike zone again in his final at-bat, working a full count, fouling off two pitches on the edge of the zone before taking the seventh pitch over the right-center field wall.

• Quantrill threw seven pitches out of the strike zone over the three matchups, and Alonso didn’t swing at any of them.

• Instead, he turned two sinkers on the outer half of the plate into a single and a grand slam.

“He earned that pitch,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said of Alonso’s grand swing.