Sal Licata went nuts after Pete Alonso’s home run left the yard in Milwaukee on Thursday night, and by the time he and Brandon Tierney took the air on Friday morning, the euphoria hadn’t come close to wearing off.
“It was the greatest win that I have ever endured as a fan,” Sal said. “This trumps it all. That was no doubt the biggest home run…there were none at least in my lifetime, that compared to what Pete Alonso did last night, when you take everything into account.
“There is no bigger moment. That’s it…it gives me goosebumps…that is just what we live for and dream about as sports fans.”
Alonso’s homer is the first in baseball history that gave a team the lead in the ninth inning or later of a winner-take-all playoff game, and Sal says it is not recency bias to say that it was the biggest moment he had ever witnessed as a fan, and the narratives around Alonso only made it more unbelievable.
“I cannot be happier for Pete Alonso himself,” Sal said. “The fact that Pete did it, after all he’s gone through, down to what could have been his last at-bat for the Mets…he waited until the last minute to deliver the biggest hit potentially in franchise history.
“In my lifetime, that is the biggest win and biggest moment that I’ve ever seen, when you factor all things in.”