The climate at Citi Subject might need been chilly all weekend, nevertheless it did little too cool Pete Alonso‘s hot start to the season.
The first baseman went 2-for-3 with an RBI single Sunday against the Toronto Blue Jays, helping the Mets to a 2-1 win for the first series sweep of the season. The Amazin’s have now gained 4 in a row and 6 of their final seven.
“We’re firing on all cylinders here,” Alonso mentioned. “It’s a really tough league to hit. There are guys doing a great job of staying in counts and taking good swings and taking good pitches.”
Alonso drove in his eleventh run this season with a third-inning single off right-hander Bowden Francis. The Mets’ chief in single-season RBI with 131 in 2022, Alonso is at the moment tied for second within the NL with 4 others. With two on and one out, Alonso lined one to left to attain Hayden Senger and provides the Mets a 1-0 lead. Brandon Nimmo scored Juan Soto with a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0. Soto, who reached on a stroll, prolonged his on-base streak to 9 video games.
“He’s not trying to do too much, and he doesn’t need to,” Nimmo mentioned. “If he finds the barrel, good things happen. He’s been adjusting well, he’s been able to kind of make the little adjustments [to] what the different pitchers are trying to do to him and find the barrel. And for him, that’s the name of the game.”
Whereas the highest of the order has been productive, the Mets have gotten little from the center or the underside.
The Mets chased Francis from the sport within the backside of the sixth, with the Blue Jay bringing in Chad Inexperienced to face the 6-8 hitters. Mark Vientos walked to load the bases with one out, however Brett Baty struck out and Jose Siri popped as much as middle subject to depart them loaded.
Nonetheless, the bullpen is there to guard leads, and the Mets have been as soon as once more in a position to depend on it, particularly after dropping starter David Peterson early when he was abruptly overcome with nausea and blurred imaginative and prescient on the mound.
Peterson cruised via 4 innings earlier than the Mets eliminated him after hitting Andres Gimenez with the bases loaded. Proper-hander Max Kranick got here in to get the third out.
Catcher Tyler Heineman took a leadoff double off Peterson earlier than the lefty retired the Nos. 9 and 1 hitters. After strolling Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Peterson got here off the mound doubled over.
“I threw a pitch and got the ball back, and then my vision just went blurry,” Peterson mentioned. “The vision then started to come back, but my stomach turned over on me, and just felt worse with every breath I took. I just felt like I got punched in the stomach and was going to throw up. That’s when I stepped off, and [the trainers] came out and I took some breaths. It kind of went away.”
The trainers got here out to take care of him, finally permitting him to remain within the sport after watching him throw a couple of pitches to Senger. Peterson pleaded to remain within the sport, settling himself as his abdomen began to settle. However by then, he had misplaced his management.
He walked Anthony Santander on 5 pitches and hit Gimenez with the primary pitch of the at-bat.
“I felt like I had Gimenez in the left-on-left matchup,” he mentioned. “And then obviously hit him, and that was it.”
Supervisor Carlos Mendoza leapt from the dugout and signaled to the bullpen for Kranick, sending Peterson to get checked out by docs. This got here out of nowhere for Peterson, and it was the primary time he may bear in mind something like that occuring to him. His day was regular up till that time, and he expects to be prepared for his subsequent begin.
The bullpen was taxed already after an in depth sport Friday and an extra-inning contest Saturday night time. Proper-hander Ryne Stanek was unavailable after warming up thrice Saturday, and so was Huascar Brazobán, who pitched 2 1/3 innings within the second sport of the sequence to bridge the hole to nearer Edwin Diaz in a tie sport.
Kranick bought Alejandro Kirk to come out to Senger in foul territory to finish the inning, getting out of a bases-loaded jam for the second time in every week. The suitable-hander prolonged his scoreless inning streak to seven innings with 1 1/3 towards Toronto. Reed Garrett pitched the seventh and A.J. Minter took over within the eighth, establishing the save for Diaz, who hit two batters within the ninth however bought Guerrero to roll over on a slider for his second save of the yr.
Peterson allowed one earned run on three hits, walked 5, hit one and struck out three over 4 2/3 innings, however didn’t keep within the sport lengthy sufficient to be eligible for the win. That went to Kranick (1-0), his first within the Main Leagues since 2021.
Francis went 5 2/3 innings, holding the Mets to 2 earned runs within the loss (1-1).
“That’s what it’s all about at this level — finding a way to come through and get the job done,” Mendoza mentioned.
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