NEW YORK — Could Pete Alonso’s return to Queens have been any more impressive? Get a free Los Orioles Jersey on Friday! (First 15K fans 21+) After an emotional first game back at Citi Field on Monday and hitting his 300th career home run on Tuesday, Alonso went deep again on Wednesday night, leading the Orioles’ four-homer barrage in a 7-1 win over the Mets. Baltimore also completed a sweep of the three-game series. The O’s (75-78) remain alive in the race for the third American League Wild Ca...
The New York Mets fans celebrated the game-tying home run with a standing ovation, but there was one glaring problem: it came off the bat of Pete Alonso, wearing a Baltimore Orioles uniform. His ninth-inning blast marked his 300th career homer, turning his already emotional return to Citi Field into another reminder of what the […]
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The Mets, who are playing out the string on a lost season, were swept by the Baltimore Orioles, losing the final game of the series by a score of 7-1. This series was a downright weird one, including seeing franchise home run leader Pete Alonso make his return to Queens as a visiting player, hit […]
After hitting a game-tying home run on Tuesday night, Pete Alonso’s 1st-inning homer on Wednesday kick-started a long-ball barrage that propelled the Orioles to a 7-1 win over the Mets. It took eight plate appearances against his former team for Alonso to finally hit his 300th career home run Tuesday in Queens. It only took […]
Probable pitchers: RHP Chris Bassitt (7-5, 4.88 ERA, 66 Ks) vs. Xzavion Curry (0-0, 3.44 ERA, 12 Ks) Where to watch: ESPN After last night’s dramatic win that included Pete Alonso’s 300th career home run, it might be natural to experience an emotional letdown in the next game. The Orioles don’t have that luxury. Tonight’s […]
The Orioles announced that infielder Jackson Holliday has been placed on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to September 15, due to left wrist inflammation. Infielder/outfielder José Barrero has been selected to take Holliday’s spot on the roster. The 40-man roster had a vacancy but is now full. At this point, it doesn’t appear as though […]
The Baltimore Orioles are still in the American League Wild Card race. However, they will be without Jackson Holliday for the foreseeable future. It was initially revealed that Holliday is not in the lineup on Wednesday because he’s “banged up,” Matt Weyrich of The Baltimore Sun reported. The team later announced that Holliday is being […]
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NEW YORK—Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday was placed on the 10-day injured list with left wrist inflammation before Wednesday night’s game against the New York Mets. The move is retroactive to Tuesday. After the news came that Holliday was not in the lineup for the second straight day, manager Craig Albernaz said that the 22-year-old […]
Mets lineup Francisco Lindor – SSJuan Soto – LFBo Bichette – 3BCarson Benge – RFJared Young – 1BMarcus Semien – 2BA.J. Ewing – CFBrett Baty – DHLuis Torrens – C SP: Xzavion Curry – RHP Orioles lineup Dylan Beavers – LFPete Alonso – 1BGunnar Henderson – SSCoby Mayo – DHChristian Encarnacion-Strand – 3BSamuel Basallo – […]
The Toronto Blue Jays expect to have one of their top arms available in the coming week as they try to make one final push for a playoff spot. Trey Yesavage is expected to throw a bullpen session in Texas, and the team will then evaluate his status for a potential return either Sunday against the Rangers or Monday against the Baltimore Orioles, John Schneider told reporters Wednesday. If Yesavage throws a side session on Friday, he could be an option for Sunday, but a Saturday session could pu...
As Baltimore Orioles star Pete Alonso recorded his 300th career home run against the New York Mets, his former team, it led to a fan reaction at Citi Field that not too many expected. While many Mets fans might have mixed feelings about Alonso hitting his 300th home run against the team, the fans in […]
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It has been a week filled with an odd sort of pride for the player development wing of the Cincinnati Reds organization. Whether they felt their seats getting warm, or not, we do not know, but this week revealed the news that team isn’t planning a major overhaul of baseball operations this winter despite another […]
“Just pain. It was pain everywhere.” That was the mood for New York Mets fans at Citi Field on Tuesday night, as Baltimore Orioles star first baseman Pete Alonso — who spent the first seven seasons of his MLB career with the Mets before the franchise didn’t come close to offering him the five-year, $155 million contract Baltimore did this past offseason — hit a game-tying home run in the top of the ninth inning. The homer marked the 300th of Alonso’s career, drew a standing ovation on the road...
Mets fans at Citi Field showered Pete Alonso with cheers after he hit career home run No. 300 Tuesday night, treating the franchise’s leading home-run hitter as if he’d never left New York — even as the blast helped the Orioles send the game into extra innings. Alonso certainly returned that level of appreciation when he received the milestone baseball from a trio of Mets fans after Baltimore’s 7-5 win. Alonso greeted the three fans outside the Orioles’ clubhouse with handshakes, hugs and effu...
The operative fact is that the Mets were eliminated from the playoffs on Monday. Everything about Pete Alonso's return to Queens this week as an Oriole is inseparable from that, in time but also in causation, to a subset of Mets fans. They gave him four separate standing ovations on Monday not only because he was a well-liked former player—and go ask a WFAN call screener from 2024 to see how ahistorical it would be to say he was universally beloved at the time—but because of what his absence f...
The New York Mets lost their series against the Baltimore Orioles with Pete Alonso in the lineup, while Sean Manaea expressed surprise at the home crowd's reaction following Alonso's homer.
When a team severely underperforms like the New York Mets have this season, fan frustration is bound to boil over. Mets fans made their displeasure abundantly clear in Tuesday’s series game against the Baltimore Orioles , directing their frustration toward a familiar face: Pete Alonso .
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Those who attended Tuesday night's Orioles-Mets game at Citi Field should be ashamed for applauding Pete Alonso's game-tying home run. It could hurt them in the long run.
The New York Mets are officially out of postseason contention. And after the game against the Baltimore Orioles, the fans have made things clear about how they feel. Not only about the current players, but also about the former ones. But one host was not happy with how the fans behaved during Pete Alonso’s return. […]
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With the Baltimore Orioles circling the drain the next two weeks and then watching the postseason once again from the outside, Luke Jones and Nestor begin to wave goodbye to any reality of a normal offseason in Birdland or anywhere MLB is played with the pending offseason labor war. The decisions about everything will fall to owners David Rubenstein and Michael Arougheti, who have proven hapless and feckless thus far in accountability regarding Mike Elias and the fans paying the freight. Baseb...
Colton Cowser made a game-saving catch against the Rockies on August 31. The grab took the sports world by storm and lifted the Orioles back to .500 for the first time in four months. The play also preserved Baltimore’s spot as a contender for the third and final wild card spot. With the benefit of […]
Meet the Mets The Mets lost to the Orioles 7-5 in the eleventh inning. The game winning runs were scored when Coby Mayo hit a ball just out of A.J. Ewing’s reach, which turned into a three-run inside-the-park home run. Choose your recap: Amazin’ Avenue, MLB.com, New York Daily News, New York Post, The Athletic […]
New York Mets players were not exactly thrilled to hear the Citi Field crowd go wild when Pete Alonso hit a ninth-inning homer off Kodai Senga to tie the score in a game the Baltimore Orioles went on to win 7-5 in 11 innings.
Baltimore Orioles first baseman Pete Alonso exchanged some autographs for the 300th career home run ball he hit during Tuesday night's 7-5 road win over the New York Mets.
Good morning Birdland, Despite their playoff odds fading by the day, these Orioles are still putting up a fight and (occasionally) doing some pretty neat things on the field. Last night’s extra-inning win over the Mets could end up being the most memorable of the entire season. Pete Alonso, the long-time Met that had a […]
NEW YORK—Pete Alonso hit his 300th home run at Citi Field, the stadium where he was a star for seven years. Alonso, who signed a five-year, $155 million contract with the Orioles last December, had been greeted enthusiastically by fans since his return on Monday. On Tuesday night, when he hit his milestone home run […]