![]() ![]() “Pete’s the same guy who walks through the door every day and (has) a real consistent mentality. “He’s just a consistent human being - home, away, spring training,” Showalter said. “Not just on the road, but no matter where I am I want to be able to have a high-quality at-bat, be able to capitalize on pitches in my area, and I was able to do that in the ninth,” Alonso said.Īlonso's eight home runs through 16 games also matched Jeff Kent (1994) for most in franchise history. Alonso, who has hit safely in nine of the last 10 games, went deep for the second consecutive day when he crushed a 2-1 pitch from Dany Jiménez to center field - one inning after the A's had gone ahead 3-2 on Shea Langelier's two-run double off John Curtiss.Īlonso's milestone home run was the 88th of his career on the road, matching Carlos Beltran for fifth-most by a Mets player. Lindor's third homer of the series came two days after he set a franchise record for shortstops with seven RBI.Īlonso's solo shot tied it 3-all and matched Kingman for fifth place in Mets history with 154 home runs. “There’s been three kind of different games but you always like when you end up on the good side of it,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said. David Robertson pitched out of trouble in the 10th for his fourth save. Francisco Lindor and Tommy Pham also homered for the Mets, who won their fourth straight and finished off their first sweep of the season.īrandon Nimmo made two diving catches in center field, one that saved the game in the ninth. We executed when we needed to.”Įduardo Escobar scored the go-ahead run in the 10th on a wild pitch by Sam Moll (0-2). Pitched well, played great defense and we had some pretty big hits. “To sweep somebody on the road, that’s extremely hard to do,” Alonso said. Pete Alonso's calm and steady approach at the plate led to a clutch home run on the road that tied him with Dave Kingman for fifth overall in Mets history.Īlonso tied the score in the ninth inning with his major league-leading eighth homer, and New York beat the struggling Oakland Athletics 4-3 in 10 innings Sunday for a three-game sweep. Left-hander Jose Quintana (0-3, 3.42 ERA) will make the start for New York against Atlanta's ace right-hander Spencer Strider (12-4, 3.94 ERA).Alonso, Mets rally to beat A's 4-3 in 10 and complete sweep It's a quick turnaround for these teams as the Mets and Braves face-off in Game 2 of today's doubleheader at 7:10 p.m. They both had two hits as well, but other than that, everyone else went hitless. Jeff McNeiland Omar Narvaezwere the only other Mets to show up on the offensive side of things. After striking out four times last night, he enjoyed a nice two-hit afternoon. Vogelbach added a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to get New York on the board. ![]() They were held hitless by Braves starter Allan Winans until Daniel Vogelbach lined an opposite field single with one out in the fourth, snapping an 0-for-14 stretch. The Mets offense was lifeless yet again this afternoon. Things went about as expected, as he allowed eight runs over just 1.1 innings of work. With the score out of hand late, Buck Showalter turned to infielder Danny Mendick to close out the game. Josh Walker also allowed a pair of homers in his lone inning of work. He allowed six runs on four hits (two homers) while walking two and striking out three. ![]() Garrett went on to 2.1 innings in relief and he struggled mightily. He threw a total of 92 pitches, 56 of which were strikes. ![]() Making the spot start in the doubleheader, Reyes allowed five runs on seven hits while walking three and striking out three over just four innings. Reed Garrett entered in his place with two on and two out and was able to get out of the inning. He was able to retire the next two batters, and then got the first two outs of the fifth, before his day came to an end. Reyes put up his first zero of the afternoon in the third but things began to cave in on him an inning later.Ītlanta struck for three more runs in the fourth on run scoring singles from Lopez and Ozzie Albies, increasing the lead to 5-0. The Braves added another in the second on a two-out double from the recently acquired shortstop Nicky Lopez. After a Ronald Acuna Jr lead-off single and stolen base, Austin Riley brought him home for the first run of the game. Making just his third big-league start, Denyi Reyes struggled this afternoon for the Mets. The Mets were defeated by the Atlanta Braves 21-3 in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader at Citi Field. New York Mets designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach (32) hits a single against the Atlanta Braves during the fourth inning at Citi Field / Brad Penner - USA TODAY Sports ![]()
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