NEW YORK — Few gamers in Main League historical past have gone yard as typically and as constantly as Pete Alonso, whose chase of Darryl Strawberry’s franchise residence run report has turn out to be certainly one of this season’s most notable Mets tales.
It’s a story seven seasons within the making, courting all the best way to his first large league homer. Alongside the best way, many others have stood out:
No. 1: April 1, 2019Perhaps probably the most important storyline of Spring Coaching 2019 was Alonso, whom Mets officers promised to offer a good shot at making the staff. Alonso wound up forcing their hand, hitting .352 with 4 homers that spring to earn a spot on the Opening Day roster. He collected six hits over his first three large league video games earlier than lastly going deep in Sport 4 of the season in Miami.
Bonus: July 8, 2019In an on the spot traditional Residence Run Derby, Alonso hit 23 residence runs to energy previous Vladimir Guerrero Jr. within the finals, changing into the second rookie to win the occasion (and the primary Met to win it outright). The Derby rapidly grew to become a defining occasion for Alonso, who took residence $1 million in prize cash for his victory — greater than he had earned in his profession to that time. He wound up donating a portion of it to charity.
No. 31: July 17, 2019The longest residence run of Alonso’s profession stays the 489-foot blast he hit into the third deck at Minnesota’s Goal Area. To this present day, it’s one of many 20 longest homers Statcast has tracked, the longest (by far) by a Met, and the longest by an opponent in Goal Area historical past.
No. 42: Aug. 27, 2019The Mets’ single-season franchise report of 41 homers, which Todd Hundley and Carlos Beltrán shared, stood for 23 years earlier than Alonso took intention at it. By August, it was clear that Alonso was going to smash that report; he lastly did so with an opposite-field solo shot towards the Cubs. With that one within the books, Alonso grew to become the primary rookie in additional than 75 years to say his franchise’s single-season report.
No. 61: Sept. 3, 2020The first walk-off homer of Alonso’s profession befell with no followers within the stands. It was nonetheless loads memorable, largely as a result of it got here towards the Yankees. After the Mets scraped throughout two runs within the eighth inning and one within the ninth to power extras at Citi Area, Alonso led off the tenth with a walk-off, two-run homer.
No. 94: Aug. 12, 2021Give Alonso credit score: he backs up his bravado. 4 days earlier than delivering an impassioned postgame speech during which he implored Mets followers to “consider in us,” Alonso hit his second profession walk-off homer in Sport 2 of a doubleheader sweep of the Nationals. The house run was essential for a Mets staff nonetheless clinging to postseason competition.
No. 161: Could 17, 2023Alonso’s walk-off, three-run homer within the tenth inning of an 8-7 win over the Rays could not have been the Mets’ greatest hit that night time. But it surely did cap a delirious night that noticed Mark Vientos hit a game-tying, two-run homer within the seventh inning and Francisco Alvarez crush a game-tying, three-run shot within the ninth. That is still one of the memorable regular-season Mets victories in current reminiscence. In Tampa Bay’s postgame clubhouse, Rays nearer Pete Fairbanks quipped: “Only a very unlucky time to be the lesser Pete.”
Bonus: Oct. 3, 2024Every Alonso lengthy ball pales in comparison with his go-ahead, three-run blast to stun the Brewers within the ninth inning of Nationwide League Wild Card Sequence Sport 3 — one which doesn’t depend towards his profession whole however that’s nonetheless, by any definition, one of the impactful homers in franchise historical past. Although Alonso has 5 residence runs over 16 profession playoff video games, not one of the others had something near this form of impact.
Nos. 242 and 243: June 8, 2025When Alonso re-signed in New York final offseason, one implication grew to become instantly clear: he would probably turn out to be the franchise’s all-time residence run king. Coming into the yr ranked third on the record, Alonso tied and handed David Wright on the identical day in a win over the Rockies. That left solely Strawberry above him.
No. 252: Aug. 9, 2025Back at American Household Area, the location of his gorgeous go-ahead homer in Sport 3 of the 2024 Nationwide League Wild Card Sequence, Alonso tied Strawberry by main off the second inning of a 7-4 loss with a Statcast-projected 413-foot blast to left-center area. That gave him 252 homers in simply 963 video games, 146 fewer than Strawberry.
