“Ouch that f**king hurt”- Pete Alonso gets hit by Johan Oviedo’s 96mph fastball
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Johan Oviedo’s 96mph fastball hits the left arm of Pete Alonso in Saturday’s match between the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates. “Get the ball in the zone,” Pete Alonso said of his message to Oviedo. “I mean, he throws hard, and it’s unsafe throwing that hard and not knowing where it’s going.” It seemed as if history repeated itself as Oviedo had made the same mistake last year.
Pete was furious as the same incident had occurred last year which had put him on the IL. “Him hitting me last year put me on the IL for a little bit,” Alonso said. “Then he hits me again in a noncompetitive pitch (out of) the zone. I’ve only faced him, I think five times. I don’t know, it’s really strange.”
As per the Pittsburgh Pirates‘ manager Derek Shelton, the pitch that hit Pete Alonso was just an accident and that Oviedo didn’t mean to cause any harm to Pete. Nevertheless Pete did take some damage to his right arm. Which caused him to get into an argument with Oviedo, resulting in a heated clearing of both teams. Thanks to the umpires, the matter was resolved quickly.
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In every game mishaps do happen but this year it has gone way passed the limit with the New York Mets, they have been hit 102 times this season. Can the New York Mets break the the modern record set by the Cincinnati Reds of getting hit 105 times in a single season ? A much anticipated question in the minds of all MLB fans, is yet to be answered.
New York Mets’ manager Buck Showalter blames the mishap on different issues, “I’ve always pushed for a universal pitching rag behind the mound where guys can tap their fingers, and you won’t have guys getting hit nearly as much,” he added. “I think a lot of hit-by-pitches are guys can’t grip the baseball.”
“Let’s say everybody hit without batting gloves, pine tar and wraps around your bat.” said Showalter. “Because a pitcher is supposed to have his tool without gripping it, yet a batter can do whatever he wants to grip a bat; just doesn’t make a lot of sense.”
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