Pete Alonso, Mets get to Rockies early in rout

Pete Alonso homered twice and singled, Mark Vientos also went deep, and the New York Mets beat the Colorado Rockies 9-1 in Denver on Thursday.

Francisco Lindor and Tyrone Taylor finished with two hits apiece for New York to back a solid start by Colorado native David Peterson.

Ezequiel Tovar and Brendan Rodgers had two hits each for the Rockies, who dropped a home series for the first time since June. They didn’t have an extra-base hit against four Mets pitchers and struck out 10 times.

Colorado starter Austin Gomber ran into trouble right away. Lindor, Jose Iglesias and J.D. Martinez hit consecutive doubles leading off the game to give the Mets a quick 2-0 lead.

Alonso followed with a 471-foot homer to center field, his first of two on the day, to make it 4-0 four batters into the game.

Gomber (3-8) got through the second inning unscathed, but Alonso tagged him again in the third, a 454-foot shot to left for his 25th home run of the season and his second multi-homer game this season.

Peter Lambert replaced Gomber after he allowed five runs on six hits in three innings.

New York added to its lead in the fifth after Lambert retired the first two batters. Alonso lined a sharp single to left and Vientos drove him in with his 17th home run of the season.

The Rockies avoided a shutout in the bottom of the inning. With one out, Aaron Schunk and Tovar singled and Rodgers walked. Brenton Doyle hit a ball deep into the gap in left-center field that Taylor tracked down to hold Doyle to a sacrifice fly.

That was the only run Peterson (6-1) allowed while giving up four hits and three walks and striking out five in five innings. It was Peterson’s first major league start in his hometown.

The Mets tacked on a couple of insurance runs in the eighth. Harrison Bader was hit by a pitch, Taylor doubled, Lindor had an RBI single and Iglesias added a sacrifice fly.

–Field Level Media