Pete Alonso hit a 446-foot homer, Harrison Bader launched a two-run shot and the New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals 6-3 on Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON — David Peterson worked efficiently into the seventh inning in his second start this season for the Mets, who have won four of six since a 7-19 stumble.Alonso went deep in the ninth inning off Nationals closer Kyle Finnegan, who came in with Washington trailing 5-2. In 81 career games against the Nationals, Alonso has 26 homers, 14 at Nationals Park — the most by any opposing player over the past five years.
'From the first inning Lindor leading off the game and then just continuing to put together some good at-bats against the starter, and then we created traffic,' Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. 'Pete adding on late in the game. I thought we had very good approaches and good team effort there.'Peterson was outstanding, allowing two runs on five hits in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. He struck out two, hit two batters and walked two while throwing 81 pitches.
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