I Need The Official Statcast Numbers Of Pete Alonso's Bat Flip From Last Night

It’s not often that you see a baseball and a bat both leave the Earth’s atmosphere during a regular season game against the Padres. But that’s exactly what El Pow did last night on his go-ahead home run. I know the Statcast numbers said the ball went 449 feet with an exit velo of 114.6 miles per hour. You guys want to watch that moonshot again? Good, me too!

What I didn’t realize was just how incredible of a bat flip Pete unleashed on the Padres. I mean I knew it had to be pretty good based on what I could see on the replay.

As well as the umpire yelling at Pete because seeing his bat in flight is probably about as terrifying as watching a dragon fly since they both unleash pure hell on the opposition. However, I didn’t realize that the bat may have went higher than the ball that was just absolutely demolished. I need to find out the launch angle, peak height, and top speed of the bat after it left Alonso’s hands all summed up with a graphic featuring some sort of isosceles triangle. Did the bat reach the Mezzanine level of Petco? How does it compare to other legendary bat flips like Yasiel Puig or Joey Bats? Will the Padres just intentionally walk Pete for the rest of his career instead of run the risk of ruining their other pitchers’ psyche? There seem to be more questions than answers more than 12 hours after that bomb was unleashed on the Petco faithful.

I also want to know via Statcast or one of those Feelings Charts my daughter has at daycare exactly how angry Chris Paddack was that Alonso answered his shenanigans from Monday night with a bat flip to the moon on a go-ahead home run exactly one night after Paddack’s start.

I believe the kids call that Big Mad.

Let me make it clear that I have no problem with what Paddack or Alonso did. I actually love the Mets getting into dick measuring contests with teams like the Padres and Reds distraction during the complete grind that is being a Mets fan during a 162 game season. Having villains that aren’t wearing your own team’s jerseys is quite refreshing as is the official Twitter account diving into the mud about Rookie of the Month awards. You almost expect shit like that to pop off against division rivals like the Phillies. But scrapping against teams from San Diego and Cincinnati actually helps keeps the season fresh.

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Now if Alonso gets beaned for doing essentially the hitters’ version of what Paddack was doing, things might get ugly. But watching two young studs talk shit then back it up is about as exciting as it’s going to get for a Mets-Padres series in the beginning of May. Especially when one of those studs hits a ball and flips a bat that still haven’t landed.