The moment for Pete Alonso’s 300th career home run couldn’t have been much better. “It was like a movie,” Orioles right-hander Shane Baz said. Except not even Hollywood could have come up with this script for the milestone, which occurred in the type of special way that only baseball is capable of providing. After playing as a visitor at Citi Field for the first time on Monday night, Alonso kept the homecoming festivities going by blasting his 300th MLB homer on Tuesday -- a game-tying solo shot off New York right-hander Kodai Senga in the ninth inning of the O’s eventual 7-5, 11-inning win over the Mets. It was the 36th home run of the 31-year-old first baseman’s first season with Baltimore, which signed him to a five-year, $155 million deal last December. “There’s a lot of history here with me, and honestly, it doesn't matter where and when. I just want to help the team win,” Alonso said. “No. 300, it's a nice round number. But I’m just so proud of this group. The way we fought today, it’s an unbelievable team win.” The moments immediately after Alonso’s Statcast-projected 414-foot shot cleared the left-center-field wall were even more memorable than the homer itself. The fans in Flushing roared as Alonso took his bat and chucked it toward his teammates in the third-base dugout. He rounded the bases to an ovation that only grew louder by the time he touched home plate and returned to celebrate with his club. At that point, there was only one option: a curtain call. And the rest of the Orioles knew it, encouraging Alonso to go up the steps and tip his cap to the supporters who backed him for the first seven years of his big league career. “I haven’t really seen a curtain call from a guy wearing gray pants, so that was kind of cool,” manager Craig Albernaz said. “The dugout was fired up for Pete, for a lot of different reasons. So it was cool to get an acknowledgement from the fans.”
