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Francisco Lindor snaps skid, Pete Alonso also breaks out as Mets sweep Angels

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News on

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NEW YORK — Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso snapped their hitless streaks in style.

The Mets stars broke out of their respective slumps by delivering the biggest hits in Wednesday afternoon’s 6-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels at Citi Field.

Lindor’s go-ahead RBI single in the third inning ended his career-worst 0 for 31 drought and proved to be the game-winner.

Later in the inning, Alonso ended a milder 0 for 13 skid with a towering three-run home run, helping to finish off a three-game sweep of the Angels.

Lindor entered Wednesday without a hit in his previous six games, a slide that dated back to before the All-Star break.

He nearly broke through in his first at-bat Wednesday, but his 361-foot drive was caught on the left-field warning track.

The score was tied, 1-1, in the third when Lindor lined a two-strike slider from left-hander Jake Eder into right field, scoring Tyrone Taylor from second base to give the Mets a 2-1 lead.

Lindor earned a loud cheer from the Citi Field crowd of 41,591 as the soft single landed in the outfield grass.

The 0 for 31 drought was four at-bats longer than Lindor’s previous career-worst, when he went 0 for 27 in 2016 as a second-year player with Cleveland. But it finished short of Rey Ordóñez’s dubious franchise record of 0 for 37 in 1997.

Alonso, meanwhile, was hitless in his previous three games, including Sunday’s win over the Cincinnati Reds in which he didn’t start — but came off the bench — due to a right hand contusion.

The slugger had one hit in his previous 19 at-bats before he sent an Eder fastball 439 feet into the left-field second deck, giving the Mets a 5-1 lead.

It was the first home run in 11 games for Alonso, who is now four homers shy of tying Darryl Strawberry’s all-time franchise record of 252.

 

Lindor tacked on an RBI single against Eder in the fourth inning, while Alonso added a single in the seventh. Both finished 2 for 4.

The Mets also got a leadoff home run from Brandon Nimmo, whose 19 homers have him on pace to shatter his career high of 24.

That top-of-the-order trio provided more than enough run support for Mets left-hander Sean Manaea, who limited Los Angeles to one run — a Mike Trout solo homer in the third — while setting season-highs with five innings and 82 pitches.

It was the third appearance of the year for Manaea, who missed more than three months due to a spring-training oblique strain and a loose body in his left elbow that briefly interrupted his rehab assignment.

Manaea worked around two hits and a walk and struck out five. He has a 2.19 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 12 1/3 innings since returning.

The Angels threatened multiple times against the Mets’ bullpen, including in the top of the eighth when, in a 6-3 game, Luis Rengifo represented the tying run at home plate.

But Rengifo was called out on a third-strike slider from Mets closer Edwin Diaz that appeared well outside of the zone. That prompted the first of two arguments by Angels interim manager Ray Montgomery, who was ejected in the bottom of the eighth for continuing to chirp at home plate umpire Erich Bacchus.

In the ninth, Diaz plunked Chris Taylor in the helmet, but the veteran remained in the game. Diaz settled in to finish off a four-out save.

Wednesday’s win was the fourth in a row for the Mets, who completed their first homestand of the second half at 4-2.

The Mets are off Thursday, then are scheduled to begin a six-game West Coast road trip on Friday night in San Francisco.

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