WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- One look at Pete Alonso is enough to understand why his power rates among baseball's best. One collision is more than enough to confirm it.

Just ask Josh Reddick, who crumpled to the dirt after crashing into Alonso in the Astros' 6-3 win over the Mets on Monday. Attempting to beat out a bunt, Reddick struck Alonso as the first baseman reached back across his body to corral an errant throw, turning his shoulder at the last moment to avoid a shot to his ribs. Despite having most of the momentum, Reddick toppled to the ground, lying there for several moments before dusting himself off and heading toward the dugout.

"It looked like he ran into a brick wall and just kind of fell down like a sack of potatoes," Mets manager Mickey Callaway said.

Both players were fine after the game, allowing them to joke about the incident. On Twitter, Reddick wrote, "Hey @Pete_Alonso20 make sure the trainers check out that brick wall you call a body post game." Alonso responded: "They said I'm all good to go ... I'm so sorry and I'm glad you’re ok."

The greatest bruise may have been to the ego of Reddick, a professional wrestling fanatic who introduced a WWE-style championship belt into the Astros' clubhouse two years ago, and once wore an Ultimate Warrior costume for an MLB Network appearance. None of it was enough to help the 6-foot-2, 195-pounder as he crashed into the 6-foot-3, 245-pound Alonso.

Asked where he learned to absorb that sort of punishment, Alonso credited his father, who played football at Division III Denison University. Alonso himself played youth football, but he quit before high school to focus on his true love.

"Whoever says baseball isn't a contact sport is an idiot," he said. "That [play] is proof of that."

Add it to the growing reputation Alonso has established at Mets camp, where he's batting .406 with three home runs and a 1.270 OPS -- tops in the Grapefruit League -- through 11 games. In his first at-bat Monday, Alonso hit the center-field wall on the fly with a line-drive double.

"I'm feeling really good," he said. "I'm just enjoying seeing the ball well right now. I'm sticking with my approach, not swinging at too many bad pitches. My swing decisions have been really good, I feel like, and I'm just looking to continue progress each day and just get better. That's it."

Callaway put it more succinctly.

"He's hitting it hard," the manager said. "Even the baserunners."