MILWAUKEE — After he returned to the Mets final winter, the one query was when Pete Alonso would transfer atop the franchise residence run record.
On Saturday evening, he grabbed a share of that spot.
Alonso launched a second-inning homer — No. 252 in his profession — that tied him with Darryl Strawberry for first place within the franchise file e book.
It went for naught within the Mets’ 7-4 loss to the Brewers at American Household Discipline.
All alongside, Strawberry has been pulling for Alonso to interrupt his file. He shared his pleasure over the tie in a textual content to The Submit final evening.
“Congratulations Pete,” Strawberry texted. “Let’s go (blue coronary heart and orange coronary heart emoji).”
Alonso departed earlier than talking to reporters. Based on a membership spokesman, the slugging first baseman had a household matter to which he wanted to attend.
The blast was Alonso’s fourth in eight video games — he hit three throughout the latest Mets residence stand. Alonso had tied and moved forward of David Wright for second place on the membership’s all-time record with homers Nos. 242 and 243 on June 8 in Colorado.
On this evening, he pounded a 1-2 pitch from Tobias Myers over the fence in left-center for his twenty sixth homer of the season.
“I congratulated him there, as quickly as he acquired again to the dugout,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned. “It’s fairly particular, however for him, it’s about successful, and proper now we’re not doing that, but it surely’s a reasonably particular second for him.”
Mendoza was requested what Alonso means to the group.
“He means rather a lot,” Mendoza mentioned. “We’re speaking a couple of mark that’s not straightforward to get to, particularly with the quantity of nice gamers which have placed on this uniform, and for Pete to have the ability to tie it’s one thing particular for him and all of us, and we’re happy with him.”
As pissed off as Francisco Lindor was on the sixth straight Mets loss, he mentioned he was completely satisfied Alonso might seize a bit of franchise historical past.
“He’s probably the greatest energy hitters on this group and probably the greatest within the sport, as properly,” Lindor mentioned. “What he does day in and time out is spectacular, and I’m tremendous happy with him, and I’m glad he’s my teammate and I acquired to witness historical past.”
Lindor mentioned the complete workforce was conscious Alonso wanted just one homer to tie Strawberry.
“It’s one thing he doesn’t discuss a lot, however I’m positive he needed it,” Lindor mentioned. “And for him to perform that, it’s a great factor. I’m positive he’s going to hit one [Sunday] or the subsequent sport and be the only real chief of the franchise.”
