helped the Mets pull away from the Yankees<\/a>, Alonso is up to 246 dingers for his career \u2014 six away from the all-time franchise record.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cI know it,\u201d said Alonso, who has been asked about it frequently, \u201cbut I just want to help the team win. That\u2019s really all I want to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso acknowledges the fans for a curtain call during the Mets\u2019 12-6 win over the Yankees on July 5, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
He did so again in the 12-6, Subway Series victory at Citi Field, which began with a Brandon Nimmo grand slam and continued with Alonso doing the bulk of the rest of the offensive damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Alonso is at his best, he is ignoring pitches out of the strike zone and crushing the mistakes that are thrown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the first inning, he ignored five pitches from Carlos Rod\u00f3n and happily took first base before Nimmo stepped up and pulled his blast to right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a seven-pitch battle that ended in a strikeout in the third, Alonso found a second-pitch, down-the-middle fastball from Rod\u00f3n and did not miss it, smashing the home run to right-center in the fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Darryl Strawberry has the Mets franchise record for home runs. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
Two innings later, this time with Jayvien Sandridge on the mound, Alonso liked the first pitch he saw \u2014 another fastball \u2014 and demolished it to left for a three-run shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s controlling the strike zone,\u201d manager Carlos Mendoza said of Alonso. \u201cWe know the power. We saw it today to the pull side, to right field. But not chasing [is helping].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets were hoping Kodai Senga would only require one rehab start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After his first, he might require a second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Double-A Binghamton, Senga allowed four runs (three earned) in 3 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings in which he allowed six hits, walked two and struck out four. He threw 68 pitches and did not complete four innings, as hoped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kodai Senga injures his hamstring during the Mets-Nationals game on June 12, 2025. JASON SZENES\/NY POST<\/p>\n
It is still possible the Mets ask Senga \u2014 who could throw 75-80 pitches in his next outing \u2014 to return next weekend at Kansas City, but they now face that decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senga, Sean Manaea and Jesse Winker headline the crew of reinforcements getting close to helping the Mets, but Brooks Raley is approaching becoming an option, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The lefty tossed another scoreless inning with Triple-A Syracuse on Friday. In six games since his rehab assignment began June 17, he has totaled 6 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings in which he has allowed five hits and no runs, walked one and struck out 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets, whose bullpen has lost lefties A.J. Minter and Danny Young plus strong righties in Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3, Dedniel N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Max Kranick, could use that kind of production \u2014 but expect to wait until the other side of the All-Star break before summoning Raley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old is recovering from May 2024 Tommy John surgery and stretching out slowly. Friday represented his first time pitching on one day\u2019s rest. He has not yet gone back-to-back, which Mendoza said must happen before he is activated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s put himself in a good position,\u201d Mendoza said of Raley, whom the Mets re-signed in April on a one-year deal that contains a club option for 2026. \u201cHe\u2019s responding well, bouncing back well. Now we\u2019re basically preparing him for potential scenarios with the way we want to use him here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mendoza on Juan Soto\u2019s sacrifice bunt with runners on first and second and no outs in the first inning: \u201cThat\u2019s part of the show,\u201d he said with a smile, and two batters later Nimmo launched the grand slam.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the first time since being shut down with a right elbow sprain in mid-June, Tylor Megill threw Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cFeels good,\u201d reported Megill, whose elbow inflammation has gone down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The righty was not sure about his timetable, but he will need to be built up carefully after a nearly three-week shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll take our time, but hopefully not too long,\u201d Megill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets officially signed veteran righty reliever Zach Pop, who was active for the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Austin Warren, who pitched 1 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings Friday, was optioned to Syracuse. To make room for Pop on the 40-man roster, the Mets designated Tyler Zuber for assignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets did not option Friday starter Justin Hagenman, who could receive a second major league start Thursday in Baltimore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is possible that Hagenman is needed in relief before then, but the Mets will need a starter Thursday after Brandon Waddell is expected to serve as the bulk pitcher Sunday \u2014 with Chris Devenski as the opener \u2014 Clay Holmes on Tuesday and David Peterson on Wednesday. The rehabbing Manaea and Senga can return, at earliest, the following series in Kansas City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few of the milestones Pete Alonso reached Saturday afternoon:\u00a0 Broke a tie with David Wright and now…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[33964,1266,1305,3687,62,30700,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-43393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-darryl-strawberry","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-pete-alonso","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-subway-series","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114806387183577926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}