{"id":584699,"date":"2026-02-21T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:39:20","slug":"yankees-fan-attempts-to-roast-pete-alonso-in-his-baltimore-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584699\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees fan attempts to roast Pete Alonso in his Baltimore debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Alonso<\/a>\u2019s first game with the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> against the New York Yankees quickly became a memorable one, and not just because of what happened on the field.<\/p>\n

During the Orioles\u2019 spring training opener on Friday, Alonso nearly recorded his first hit<\/a> in the third inning, but New York Yankees prospect Kenedy Corona made a diving catch in left-center to take it away.<\/p>\n

Alonso didn\u2019t let that slow him down. In the sixth inning, during his third trip to the plate since leaving the New York Mets, he jumped on a first-pitch curveball from Bradley Hanner and drove it deep into the left-center stands for a two-run homer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old announced his arrival in Baltimore by leading his new team to a 2-0 win over New York.<\/p>\n

A Yankees fan had tried to poke fun<\/a> at Alonso during the game as Alonso stepped to the plate for his first AB as an Oriole.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe couldn\u2019t make it in New York,\u201d the fan commented.<\/p>\n

That comment did not age well. Soon after, Alonso responded with his bat to silence any criticism about his game.<\/p>\n

Alonso spent his first seven major league seasons with the Mets before signing a five-year, $155 million contract with the Orioles<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

Coming into his eighth MLB season, he comes off a strong 2025 campaign, hitting .272 with a .347 on-base percentage while recording a career-high 170 hits, along with 38 home runs and 126 RBIs. He also led the National League with 41 doubles.<\/p>\n

His first home run as an Oriole was a reminder to AL East rivals like the Yankees that his power is still a threat. With Baltimore set to face New York often this season, the rivalry just gained another storyline. What started as a light jab from a fan ended with Alonso having the last word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Alonso\u2019s first game with the Baltimore Orioles against the New York Yankees quickly became a memorable one,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-584699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-orioles","14":"tag-pete-alonso"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116108432412161297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}