Rosario And Alonso Five Alive

There was a time Julio Teheran owned the Mets. Not anymore. Not tonight. The roles are now reversed.

The tone was set when Amed Rosario began the game with a double. Joe Panik singled, and then Pete Alonso tied Cody Bellinger‘s National League rookie record for homers in a season:

The Mets were up 3-0 before recording an out, and the offense was off and running. Teheran wouldn’t make it past the second. Every starter would get at least one hit, and the Mets would record a season high 22 hits.

Rosario and Alonso each had their first five hit games, and it’s the first time in Rosario was a homer short of the cycle, and he’s had nine hits over the past two games. Alonso had a career high six RBI.

Another note with these two is Alonso was charged with an error when Rosario literally threw a ball through his mitt.

Juan Lagares continues his reawakening with a three hit game. Lagares’ eight hits in the series where as many as he’s had in his previous 52 AB.

J.D. Davis now has a nine game hitting streak, Wilson Ramos had a four hit game, and Todd Frazier homered.

Marcus Stroman was good enough allowing three runs (two earned) in four hits on four walks and five strikeouts in 5.1 innings. Luis Avilan and Brad Brach continued their improved pitching before handing it off to Drew Gagnon to mop up the game.

Gagnon was terrible allowing two homers to Freddie Freeman along with homers to Ronald Acuna Jr. and Josh Donaldson. That’s four homers making a 10-3 lead a 10-8 nail biter necessitating Edwin Diaz enter the game with two outs in the ninth to try to get the save.

Diaz walked Brian McCann on four pitches bringing Ender Inciarte up as the tying run.

Even if the Mets made a laugher scary, they got the win they needed, and now they fly to Kansas City where the can do some damage.

Game Notes: Jeromy Burnitz and David Wright are the other two Mets rookies to record six RBI in a game.

2 Replies to “Rosario And Alonso Five Alive”

  1. David Klein says:
    August 15, 2019 at 11:25 pm

    I want to go Gaga over Rosario and Alonso’s monster games but Mickey’s managing puts a huge damper on everything. He stupidly double switched Davis out while using Brach for one inning then he leaves Gagnon in for an hour, oy. I’m not sure why Gagnon is even back given how dreadful was his first time up but how do you let a journeyman mop up man stay in there to give up four homers and just do nothing? I mean after every home run Mickey kept him in and then put Diaz in a terrible spot where a bloop and a blast ties it. I mean is Mickey inbreed or something? How stupid can one man possibly be?

  2. David Klein says:
    August 15, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    Two games out with this manager, gm and bullpen unreal.

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