Miami – Pete Alonso has returned from the edge earlier.
But this kind of night on an almost must-win game 160 looked like a return to that edge.
In the inning that could very well chase the Mets out of season, Alonso’s glove could not get through.
Alonso’s bat (and the bats of others) could not get through in a few innings in which the Mets might have been able to erase their defensive mistakes.
The 6-2 loss from Friday before the Marlins in Loompot Park was painful for all the Mets, but probably particularly painful for Alonso, who may have two more games left in his Mets career.
“For now we just had to do what we can to win tomorrow,” said Alonso after a day when the Mets fell in a wild-card with the Reds, which the Tiebreaker owns.
The fall of the Mets in the second half is stable and long; The Kelmmet was short on Friday.
They led 2-0 in the bottom of the fifth when Alonso could not make two plays that helped start a six-run frame.
After Griffin Conine baseed a single, Troy Johnston hit a shot on the right side of Alonso. He dived, his glove reached the ball but does not clamp it, looks down and in the right field for a single that put runners on the corners.
After a two-run triple who tied the match and a ground-out that Alonso neatly treated, Jakob Marsee stood up hard for Alonso, who could see that Heriberto Hernández had left the third base.
“He’s going to contact,” said Alonso. “It was a difficult one.”
Perhaps in a hurry to throw home, Alonso looked the ball from his glove and towards Jeff McNeil.
McNeil did not play a game at home, so he hit Alonso for the out on first base while the go-ahead run scored.
“I am still happy that I could get in,” said Alonso. “But not ideal. If I made it neat in the field, I would have thrown it home.”
Alonso’s bat could not pay on this night.
He started well, his double who ran from third base in the first inning of the third base and scored the second and last run of the Mets.
But he couldn’t fill the two-run lead in the third, when Juan Soto reached third base with one out. Sandy Alcántara, who went to Dominant in the outing from the outing, used a diving change to induce a chase of Alonso that 1-out-4 was in the night-for strike three. Soto would be stranded.
“He is able to make some pitches against Pete with a runner on third base,” said Carlos Mendoza about Alcántara, who was finally out of the game after the end of Francisco Lindor to lead the eighth.
Down 6-2, the Mets put two runners on the base for Alonso. But against Lefty Gad Gibson, Alonso chased a fading change for the strikeout. McNeil then ran to bring the potential draw to the plate, but Mark Vientos dived out.
“We did great early, but we were allowed to think of a way to get Sandy out of the game [earlier]”Said Alonso, whose Mets no longer control their play -off lot.
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