LOS ANGELES — Pete Alonso gave Dodger followers a sneak peek of what he’ll be doing right here in simply over a month, when he’ll enter Chavez Ravine because the defending Home Run Derby champion.
The Mets slugger hit a pair of highly effective house runs, the primary a two-run shot and the second a three-run dinger, and led the Mets to a 9-4 win over the Dodgers on Saturday night time. Alonso is about to carry his baseball-smashing prowess to Dodger Stadium on July 18 for the Home Run Derby. Los Angeles will host this yr’s All-Star Game festivities.
Alonso on Saturday entered the highest 10 on the Mets’ all-time house run checklist after his thirteenth profession multi-homer night time. The 27-year-old tied Kevin McReynolds with 122 profession house runs. Alonso is simply 4 house runs shy of being midway to the all-time Mets’ house run chief, Darryl Strawberry, who’s first with 252.
Francisco Lindor homered within the first inning off right-hander Walker Buehler to mark simply the second Mets run of their final 19 innings. It was additionally their first lead of the collection. Though David Peterson gave up that lead within the second, partly due to an error from his first baseman, the Mets did a superb job of responding proper again within the third.
Alonso cemented the shortest begin of Buehler’s profession when he parked his fifteenth house run of the season to left area off the Dodgers starter. He was the ultimate batter Buehler confronted. The righty pitched simply 2.1 innings and coughed up 5 runs throughout 65 pitches. Alonso’s sixteenth house run of the yr got here on a 100 mph sinker from Brusdar Graterol, which resulted in a line-drive bullet that left the park at lightning pace.
Meanwhile, Buck Showalter managed together with his intestine, albeit to Peterson’s dismay.
Peterson’s ninetieth pitch of the night time within the fourth inning was a curveball to Mookie Betts that the National League MVP favourite lined, sharply and dangerously, for a loud foul ball to left area. That was all Showalter wanted to see. So, in an on-the-fly and strange determination, Showalter eliminated Peterson from his outing mid at-bat. Moments later, it labored.
In got here Colin Holderman, pitching for the second time in three days, with a person on second and the Mets making an attempt to hold on to a two-run lead. Holderman wound up freezing Betts with a cutter to finish the inning unscathed. Peterson had caught round within the dugout till the top of the inning, after which he hurried into the Mets tunnel with out chatting with anybody, apparently agitated.
In the top, Peterson held the Dodgers to 4 runs (one earned) on two hits, whereas strolling 4 and hanging out six throughout 3.2 innings. Three runs had been unearned within the second inning when Alonso’s throwing error, a large throw to shortstop that introduced in a run, gave the Dodgers an additional out and extended the inning. Betts capitalized on Alonso’s mistake when he cleared the bases with a three-run double. Alonso made up for his miscue with the aforementioned game-altering house run.
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