Pete Alonso wasn’t satisfied just tying for second place on the Mets’ all-time home run list Sunday, so he claimed the spot as his own.
The sizzling first baseman had already homered once to tie David Wright with 242 homers as he approached the plate in the eighth inning at Coors Field.
Two pitches later he was ahead of Wright, with only Darryl Strawberry remaining ahead of him.
“I don’t think that is really going to settle in because we’re still in the middle of the season,” Alonso said after the Mets finished a three-game series sweep with a 13-5 demolition of the Rockies. “Right now, it’s just focus on winning.”
Alonso and Jeff McNeil each blasted two homers on a day the Mets totaled six.
Juan Soto reached base six times, becoming the first Mets player to accomplish that feat in a game since Alonso in 2019.
Alonso was a beast on the seven-game road trip, delivering five home runs and 15 RBIs.
Alonso, with his 23rd career multi-homer game, moved ahead of Strawberry as the all-time Mets leader in that category.
Alonso needs nine homers to match Strawberry at 252 as the leader in franchise history.
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