Alonso’s fan‑adjacent homer
Mets slugger Pete Alonso hit a go‑ahead two‑run homer measured at 399 feet that famously landed near a spectator wearing a polar‑bear head. (x.com).
Pete Alonso’s fifth-inning homer against the Yankees on July 5, 2025 put the Mets ahead for good — and the ball dropped beside a fan in a polar-bear head. (mlb.com) The home run came off Yankees left-hander Carlos Rodón at Citi Field and scored Francisco Lindor, turning a 5-0 Mets lead into 7-0 in the bottom of the fifth. Major League Baseball logged it as Alonso’s 19th homer of the season. (mlb.com) Statcast measured the drive at 106.4 miles per hour off the bat, a 27-degree launch angle and 381 feet to right field. The Mets went on to beat the Yankees 12-6 in that July 5 Subway Series game. (mlb.com; mlb.com) The fan detail fit Alonso’s long-running “Polar Bear” identity, a nickname that has followed him since his rise with the Mets. By the end of the 2025 season, Alonso had hit 38 home runs with a.272 batting average and a.871 on-base plus slugging percentage. (mlb.com; baseballsavant.mlb.com) That summer turned into a landmark one for Alonso. On August 12, 2025, he hit his 253rd career homer for New York and passed Darryl Strawberry for the Mets’ franchise record. (cbsnews.com) The July 5 blast was also only his first homer of the night. Alonso hit another later in the game, and Mets highlights credited him with two home runs and five runs batted in. (mlb.com) Brandon Nimmo added a grand slam in the same 12-6 win, giving the Mets three home runs and nine runs batted in from Nimmo and Alonso alone. The game finished with Frankie Montas earning his first win for the Mets and Rodón taking the loss. (mlb.com; mlb.com) The clip kept circulating because it delivered the cleanest possible Alonso image: a right-field homer, a Subway Series crowd, and a “Polar Bear” ball landing next to a fan dressed for the part. (mlb.com)
