Pete Alonso has an opportunity to make historical past at residence.
Alonso enters the Mets’ six-game homestand with 252 profession residence runs, tying him with Darryl Strawberry for the franchise file.
His subsequent alternative to set the Mets’ all-time residence run file comes Tuesday night time, when the Mets start a three-game sequence towards the Atlanta Braves at Citi Area.
“It will be nice to do it here in front of our home fan base,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned at Citi Area final Tuesday, when Alonso was sitting on 251 homers.
“Doing it here at Citi Field, it will be special, but obviously I don’t want to put too much pressure on him. I want him to go out there and just be himself. It’s gonna happen.”
Alonso, 30, didn’t homer within the ultimate two video games of the Mets’ earlier homestand. He tied Strawberry’s decades-old file on Saturday night time in Milwaukee, then went 2-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI in Sunday’s sequence finale towards the Brewers.
That set the stage for Alonso to probably hit No. 253 at Citi Area, the place he’s clubbed 12 of his 26 homers this season.
“The record is obviously something that is really special, and it’s meaningful, but right now in the heat of it, I’m not too focused on that,” Alonso mentioned on Aug. 2 at Citi Area after hitting No. 250.
“I’m just focused on wins and what I can help this team do to win in each game. We’re in the thick of a playoff race right now. I’ll think of all the other stuff in the offseason or whenever I have time to.”
The Mets (63-55) have been swept over the weekend in Milwaukee. They’ve misplaced seven video games in a row and 11 of their final 12.
Coming into Monday, the Mets have been 5.5 video games behind the Philadelphia Phillies within the Nationwide League East and had fallen into the third and ultimate NL wild card spot.
This week, the Phillies are enjoying the Cincinnati Reds, who started Monday only one.5 video games behind the Mets for the final wild card place.
After their sequence towards the Braves, the Mets are slated to wrap up their homestand with a three-game set towards the Seattle Mariners over the weekend.
Alonso has not homered in seven video games towards the Braves this season. Atlanta is ready to start out right-handers Spencer Strider (5-9, 4.04 ERA), Carlos Carrasco (2-2, 6.18 ERA) and Bryce Elder (4-9, 6.12 ERA) throughout this week’s sequence in Queens.
In his profession, Alonso has homered as soon as in 17 at-bats towards Strider and as soon as in eight at-bats towards Elder. Alonso has by no means confronted Carrasco, who was a Mets teammate from 2021-23.
Alonso, a homegrown Met in his seventh MLB season, already owns the franchise’s single-season residence run file, which he set as a rookie with 53 in 2019. He’s the one Met with three seasons of a minimum of 40 homers, a feat he’s achieved 3 times.
He hit his 252nd homer in his 963rd sport. Strawberry completed with the identical complete in 1,109 video games with the Mets.
“Everyone here was happy for him,” Francisco Lindor mentioned after Alonso tied Strawberry’s file. “It’s something that I know he doesn’t talk about much, but I’m sure he wanted it, and for him to accomplish that, it’s a good thing.”
Initially Revealed: August 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM EDT
