NEW YORK — Pete Alonso put himself in some tough corporate Sunday.
The All-Famous person slugger homered two times and drove in 4 runs, achieving 40 homers and 100 RBIs for the second one consecutive season because the New York Mets beat the first-place Seattle Mariners 6-3.
Alonso accident an RBI unmarried within the first inning prior to his two-run shot within the 3rd made him the 5th participant in primary league historical past with no less than 3 40-homer seasons in his first 5 campaigns, becoming a member of Corridor of Famers Ralph Kiner (4 instances) and Eddie Matthews in addition to Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols.
“Kind of mind-baffling,” Alonso mentioned. “Impressive names. I had no idea.”
Jeff McNeil additionally went deep — later completing a homer shy of the cycle Saturday night time — and Brandnew York took two of 3 video games from the Mariners handy them their first form loss since Aug. 11-13 in opposition to Baltimore.
“It’s been a while,” supervisor Scott Servais mentioned.
Seattle, which received a franchise-record 21 video games in August, started the occasion chief the AL West by means of one recreation over Houston.
“We just had a historic month for the organization and we had maybe a little setback here,” mentioned Mike Ford, who accident the second one of back-to-back homers within the fourth. “But we can get right back on it.”
Alonso’s solo homer within the 7th made him the fourth participant in Mets historical past with 3 100-RBI seasons. David Wright reached the milestone 5 instances, and Carlos Beltrán and Darryl Strawberry each and every did it 3 times.
“Through thick and thin, we know one thing: Pete’s going to walk through that door the same guy every day,” Mets supervisor Dollar Showalter mentioned. “Pleasure to be around. He never has a bad day. He cares about his teammates, cares about the Mets. And to see guys like him have success, it makes it even more enjoyable.”
Alonso’s 41 house runs are fix for the second-most in a season in franchise historical past with Beltrán and Todd Hundley. Alonso holds the crew checklist with 53 as a rookie in 2019.
“It seems like yesterday I was in my rookie season,” Alonso mentioned. “This is my fifth year and time flies. It means a lot. This place has been extremely special to me. New York’s treated me so incredibly well.”
Alonso can grow to be a independent agent following the 2024 season, and hypothesis has been heating up about whether or not the retooling Mets will business him this iciness later dealing away veteran aces Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander this summer time to restock the farm machine.
“Everybody knows that’s part of the game until the contract is done,” Brandnew York shortstop Francisco Lindor mentioned.
