LOS ANGELES — Are the tensions between the Mets and Dodgers that brewed Friday over?
“We’ll see,” Francisco Alvarez said Saturday during a workout at Dodger Stadium. “We’ll see what’s next.”
Alvarez was in the middle of an incident during Game 5.
Los Angeles’ Andy Pages hit a fourth-inning home run that cut the Mets’ lead to 8-2, and Pages watched it go by.
He took four steps, flipped his bat and then began a slow trot around the bases.
By the time he crossed home plate, Alvarez was waiting for him.
“I just said, ‘Run the bases,’” Alvarez recalled before Sunday’s Game 6.
Pages had a few words in response to Alvarez and put his finger to his lips to Shh Alvarez.
David Peterson also seemed to have some words for Max Muncy when the two converged at first base on a groundout in the fourth inning. As often happens when two teams face each other repeatedly with this kind of stakes, the intensity increased.
“The last thing you want to do is try to create something useless on the field,” manager Carlos Mendoza said Saturday, speaking generally about controversies. “They are in competition. We know that everything is do or die. And they are competitors. And sometimes players will show their emotions.
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“But the last thing you want to do is wake up a team. That’s not who we are. We’re going to continue to play our game, and we’re not here to try to create anything.
It’s also possible that the desolation woke Alvarez, who plays with emotion. After a rough start to the postseason — a .167 average and .377 OPS through the first 11 games — the 22-year-old catcher went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI single on Friday.
Does he like these kinds of heated moments, back and forth with another team?
“I love it,” Alvarez said.
