Pete Alonso’s two-homer outing powers Mets past Dodgers

Pete Alonso hit two homers and collected five RBIs Wednesday night for the visiting New York Mets, who continued their surge with a 6-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.Griffin Canning (6-2) tossed six scoreless innings for the Mets, who have won two of the first three games in the four-game set to clinch the season series between the teams who opposed one another in last year’s National League Championship Series. New York leads the series four games to two entering the Thursday finale.Juan Soto opened the scoring on Wednesday with a run-scoring groundout for the Mets, who have won nine of 11 overall.Andy Pages had three hits, including a ninth-inning homer, but the Dodgers lost for the third time in four games. Pages’ round-tripper allowed Los Angeles to avoid what would have been their fourth shutout defeat this season.Alonso followed Soto’s RBI grounder by hitting a two-run homer on the next pitch from Tony Gonsolin (3-2).The Mets’ fourth and final hit of the game was Alonso’s 447-foot three-run homer in the eighth, when Brandon Nimmo opened the inning by being hit by a pitch before Soto walked.

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