New York. Pete Alonso hit an early three-run homer and the New York Mets beat an ineffective Jack Flaherty to extend the National League Championship Series with a 12-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fifth. game.
Dominican Starling Marte achieved three doubles among his four hits and drove in three runs for New York. Venezuelan Fran-cisco Álvarez came out of his bad streak with three hitsincluding an RBI single in a five-run third inning.
Puerto Rican Francisco Lindor and Jesse Winker joined the offensive party, with a triple RBI each.
After getting blown out in three of the first four games, including the previous two nights at home, the Mets saved their season for the second time in these playoffsboth with the help of a three-run home run by Alonso.
New York, which snuck into the postseason with a wild-card berth, reduced its series deficit to 3-2 and sent action back to Los Angeles for Game 6, which will be played tomorrow.
Sean Manaea is expected to start the game for New York on five days’ rest, while the Dodgers will likely opt for another game of bullpenin light of injuries that have decimated their rotation.
Flaherty failed
With a chance to lead his hometown team to the World Series, Flaherty failed.
After pitching seven scoreless innings with a two-ball hits in the first meeting, a victory, the pitcher was down 3-0 after just four batters when Pete Alonso hit him slider low and catapulted the ball 432 feet across center field for his fourth home run of this postseason.
The Mets figure of Spanish descent opened fire with a devastating three-run home run in the first inning.
After Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández scored in the second inning, the local attack exploded in the third with a total of five runs.
Also Puerto Rican Francisco Lindor contributed with a triple to right field that allowed Venezuelan Francisco Álvarez to go through the register.
The young Andy Pagés then made ground with his first home run in a few playoffsa 127-meter missile to center field, before the Mets increased their lead to 10-2 in the fourth inning.
Although the Japanese Shohei Ohtani had a poor night, the fearsome Dodgers offense had not yet said the last word.
Pagés hit his second home run, this time a three-run home run, in the fifth inning and Mookie Betts hit it out of the park again in the sixth to bring the Dodgers within 10-6.
The Cuban has already put his name in the record books. At 23 years and 315 days old, he is the youngest player in Dodgers history to achieve a multi-home run game in the postseason, MLB reported.
Pitchers Ryne Stanek and Puerto Rican Edwin Díaz stopped the bleeding for the Mets, who sealed the victory with runs from Jesse Winker and Alonso, the latter after a single by Dominican Starling Marte.
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