LOS ANGELES — Is the feud between the Mets and Dodgers that crept in on Friday over?
“We'll see,” Francisco Alvarez said Saturday during practice at Dodger Stadium. “Let's see what the next step is.”
Alvarez suffered an accident during the fifth race.
Los Angeles' Andy Pages hit a home run in the fourth inning, cutting the Mets' lead to 8-2, and Pages watched as it unfolded.
He took four steps, turned his bat over, and began trotting slowly around the bases.
By the time he crossed home plate, Alvarez was waiting for him.
“I just said, 'Run the bases,'” Alvarez said ahead of Sunday's Game 6.
Pages answered Alvarez with a few words and then put a finger to his lips. quietly Alvarez.
David Peterson also appeared to have a few words to say to Max Muncy as he huddled at first base on a ground out in the fourth inning. As often happens when two teams play each other repeatedly in this type of bet, the intensity gradually increases.
Coach Carlos Mendoza summed up the controversy on Saturday by saying, “The last thing we want is to create unnecessary controversy on the field.” “They're competing. We know it's all do-or-die deals, and they're competitors. And sometimes players get emotional.
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“But the last thing we want to do is wake up the team. That's not who we are. We're going to continue to play our game and we're not here to try to create something.” Not.”
Alvarez, who plays with so much emotion, may have awakened to his roughness. After a tough start to the postseason with a .167 average and .377 OPS in his first 11 games, the 22-year-old catcher went 3-for-4 on Friday with a double and an RBI.
Does he enjoy all this frenetic time going back and forth with other teams?
“I love it,” Alvarez said.
