Return to the Trop is always nice for Plant High product Pete Alonso

ST. PETERSBURG — Standing in front of the visitor’s dugout at Tropicana Field, Mets slugger Pete Alonso scans the empty upper deck along the third base line. “I think the really special thing, one of the biggest games I’ve seen here ... against the Red Sox (in the American League Championship Series) of that playoff run in 2008,” Alonso says. “That was that was really, really special to see ...