Alonso hit his 30th home run and surpassed 100 RBIs, Starling Marte stole home and the Mets continued their season-long mastery of the Phillies with a win on Friday night.
The NL East-leading Mets improved to 12-4 against the Phillies this season -- 5-2 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's wild-card chase could be on shaky ground with three more games this weekend against the Mets.
That sparked loud chants of"Let's go Mets!" from many of the New York faithful among the sellout crowd of 43,176 at Citizens Bank Park. The Mets cheer was quickly drowned out by boos."I don't know what it is," interim Phillies manager Rob Thomson said."Some teams just have other teams' numbers." "You look up there and see 100 next to his name in the middle of August, it's impressive," Mets manager Buck Showalter said.
Alonso could at least chase down Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber for the NL lead. Schwarber, who has 34 homers, had been reduced to two pinch-hit appearances since he strained his right calf last week. Schwarber was back in his leadoff spot and did rip a two-RBI single to right in the fifth.The Phillies left nine runners stranded and mustered little offense against Chris Bassitt .
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