Alonso has 14 homers and 53 RBIs, and 10 RBIs in his last four games; it was his first multi-homer game of the season. His 240 homers are two behind David Wright for second-most in franchise history (Wright, incidentally, was on the field pregame.)

Pete Alonso homered twice and drove in five runs, Griffin Canning held baseball’s best offense scoreless for six innings and the New York Mets defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1 on Wednesday night.

Pete Alonso hits a two-run homer in the first inning and a three-run blast in the eighth, and Canning pitches six scoreless innings as the Mets hand the Dodgers a 6-1 defeat.