NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Alvarez salivates for big moments.
“He’s almost foaming at the mouth to get up there,” New York Mets teammate Brandon Nimmo said. “The way that he walks around the batter’s box, the mannerisms, the body language when he’s up there and he takes a swing and steps back out, it just tells me he wants that moment and he wants to take it head on.”
A starting catcher in his first pennant race at age 22, Alvarez hit a second-inning homer and a two-run double in a three-run seventh that lifted New York over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 on Saturday. The Mets remained two games in front of Atlanta for the third and final NL wild-card berth…