Pete Alonso Pledges $1,000 to Animal Shelters for Each Home Run he Hits this Season
New York Mets slugging first baseman Pete Alonso is making a simple promise for the 2024 season: Every home run he hits will benefit an animal shelter to the tune of $1,000. And given his home run hitting prowess, it’s a decent bet that Alonso will be helping plenty of critters.
Discussing his promise for the upcoming season with reporters at spring training, Alonso didn’t offer any big prediction, just a hope to help out.
“Hopefully there’s a lot of homers and we get to save a lot of animals,” Alonso said, according to Fox Sports’ Deesha Thosar.
If his first five seasons playing Major League Baseball are any indication, Alonso is likely to be handing over a bit more than $40,000 to this charitable cause this season.
After hitting a league-leading 53 home runs during a Rookie of the Year debut season in 2019, Alonso survived a 16 home run sophomore season — in which he also played just 57 games — to average 45 a year through five seasons. In the four full seasons Alonso has played, he’s hit more than 35 home runs in all of them.
So barring some sort of disruption, Alonso is likely to help out plenty of dogs, cats and all sorts of other animals in need of a loving home.