Mets win night game, split DH with Pirates
Tyler Anderson pitched five innings and helped himself with a tiebreaking homer, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-2 victory over Marcus Stroman and the New York Mets on Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader.
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NEW YORK (AP) Pete Alonso homered, Jeff McNeil drove in two runs and the New York Mets beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Saturday night for a doubleheader split.
Alonso gave the Mets a 3-1 lead when he connected on a 1-1 fastball from Max Kranick (1-1) with two outs in the third inning. Alonso’s 428-foot solo drive hit a glass window on a club area just inside the left-field foul pole.
Pete Alonso homers again as Mets split another doubleheader
Field Level Media
11 Jul 2021, 12:40 GMT+10
Pete Alonso continued warming up for Monday s Home Run Derby by homering for the second straight night Saturday, when his third-inning solo shot proved to be the difference as the New York Mets salvaged a split of a doubleheader with a 4-2 win over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Pirates earned a 6-2 win in the opener, when Tyler Anderson tossed five strong innings and hit the tie-breaking homer in the fifth.
The split was the eighth in 10 doubleheaders this season for the Mets and the second in three twinbills for the Pirates.
Final score: Mets 4, Pirates 2 Better late than never
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The Mets entered the second game of the day needing to win to split the doubleheader and also to at least split the series. They had Tylor Megill on the mound, and while he only gave up one run and kept the Mets in the lead, he also only was able to go 3.2 innings with a high pitch count, and had several baserunners who could’ve tacked on more runs. Jeurys Familia, Seth Lugo, and Edwin Díaz kept the Mets in the game, with only Seth Lugo allowing a run on a Jacob Stallings solo home run.
NEW YORK (AP) â Pete Alonso homered, Jeff McNeil drove in two runs and the New York Mets beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Saturday night for a doubleheader split.
Alonso gave the Mets a 3-1 lead when he connected on a 1-1 fastball from Max Kranick (1-1) with two outs in the third inning. Alonsoâs 428-foot solo drive hit a glass window on a club area just inside the left-field foul pole.
It was the 17th homer for Alonso, who is defending his All-Star Home Run Derby title on Monday night in Colorado. Alonso won the competition in 2019, and it was canceled last year because of the pandemic.
MLB roundup: Dodgers blast 8 homers in 22-1 rout of Diamondbacks
Field Level Media
11 Jul 2021, 17:05 GMT+10
Justin Turner and Mookie Betts each hit grand slams as the Los Angeles Dodgers blasted a season-high eight home runs in a record-setting 22-1 victory over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday.
Dodgers starter Walker Buehler pitched six scoreless innings as Los Angeles put an All-Star Game flavor on the victory. The 22 runs scored matched a Los Angeles Dodgers record, recorded in July of 2001 at Colorado. Saturday s was a club record for runs scored in a game at Dodger Stadium.
AJ Pollock and Albert Pujols each hit two home runs for the Dodgers, who had a season-high 21 hits. Cody Bellinger and Pollock had back-to-back home runs in the first inning as the Dodgers scored five runs in the opening frame and had a nine-run lead four batters into the second.