Leave sports talk to the experts? No, leave it to the caller who predicted Pete Alonso’s game-winning three-run homer hours before it happened.
While most New York Mets fans gave up on Alonso heading into their winner take all Game 3 against the Milwaukee Brewers Thursday night, Claude didn’t. Hours before the first pitch in Game 3 of their Wild Card matchup, Claude called ESPN New York’s The Michael Kay Show with a prediction.
“I’m rooting for Pete Alonso to hit a game-winning three-run homer tonight,” Claude told The Kay Show. “But on his way to first base, he’s gonna let off some weird yelp or scream or something extremely awkward that’s gonna put a shadow over his achievement, but it would be great for him to do that.”
Well, that’s pretty amazing. What does Claude have to say about the Mets upcoming NLDS series with the Philadelphia Phillies?
Mets fans may have been unanimous in rooting for Pete Alonso to come through with a game-winning three-run homer to lead the Mets into the NLDS while it was happening, but only Claude was confident enough to predict it hours before. Claude gets dinged a little bit for being wrong about “something extremely awkward” overshadowing the homer, but even that was probably the least outrageous part of his prediction.
As much as Mets fans love Alonso, they recognize he’s a bit of an awkward superstar. No one would have been stunned if he had some sort of Howard Dean moment while running around the bases last night.
But instead of an awkward yelp stealing the moment, Alonso’s home run was only aided by the voice of Howie Rose, who offered the perfect call to what deserves to be remembered as one of the biggest hits in New York Mets history. And Claude knew it first.
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