{"id":71704,"date":"2024-04-29T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=71704"},"modified":"2024-04-29T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T12:25:58","slug":"pete-alonso-home-run-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/29\/pete-alonso-home-run-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time Derby Champ Is Fourth Mets Player To Reach Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alonspe01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pete Alonso<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hit his 200th career home run on Saturday, becoming the fourth Mets player in franchise history to achieve this milestone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After fouling off the first pitch of the at-bat, Alonso launched a two-run blast 403 feet over the right-center-field wall. This marked his eighth home run of the season for the two-time Home Run Derby winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4\/27\/2024 Pete Alonso hits the 200th home run of his career. Alonso joins Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, and Mike Piazza as the only players to hit 200 homers with the Mets. He also becomes the fourth-fastest player to reach this milestone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/18zdbwtveB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/18zdbwtveB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This Day in Mets History (@NYMhistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYMhistory\/status\/1784340190552592503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pete Alonso becomes the fourth player to hit 200 career home runs with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Mets<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lE2ZqYl86m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lE2ZqYl86m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1784339428564975911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alonso achieved this milestone in his 710th MLB appearance, becoming the fourth-fastest player in MLB history to reach 200-home runs. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among Mets players, he now ranks fourth in career home runs, joining the elite 200 club alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/piazzmi01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Piazza<\/a> (220), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighda03.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Wright<\/a> (242), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strawda01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Strawberry<\/a> (252).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Pete Alonso Makes Mets History With 200 Home Runs<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 29-year-old slugger described this achievement as a \u201creally special moment\u201d, saying that it\u2019s \u201cmind-boggling\u201d to be among the fastest players to reach this milestone. Darryl Strawberry expressed his desire for Alonso to surpass his record and become the Mets\u2019 all-time home run leader. It\u2019s not just Strawberry who praises Alonso from afar. David Wright, another Mets legend, praised Alonso as \u201cone of the premier power hitters in the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alonso burst onto the major league scene in 2019, winning the Home Run Derby and the NL Rookie of the Year.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He became the fifth player in MLB history to achieve three 40-home run seasons within his first five years in the league. Alonso also holds Mets single-season records for home runs (53) and RBI (131) in a season. Alonso is known for his power and has been soaring the Mets all-time RBI rankings. With 512 career RBI, Alonso is 10th all-time in Mets history, trailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonescl01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleon Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reyesjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos\u00e9 Reyes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/23\/pete-alonso-mets-rumors-mlb\/\" target=\"_self\">Pete Alonso will become a free agent<\/a> for the first time in his career. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While he acknowledges that having his number retired would be \u201cspecial,\u201d contract negotiations will likely begin after the season ends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPete\u2019s a really good player. He\u2019s an important part of our organization. We\u2019re excited to have him here. Certainly, we hope that we can have him here for a while,\u201d Mets president David Stearns said of Alonso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: \u00a0John Jones-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Alonso hit his 200th career home run on Saturday, becoming the fourth Mets player in franchise history to achieve this milestone. After fouling off the first pitch of the at-bat, Alonso launched a two-run blast 403 feet over the right-center-field wall. This marked his eighth home run of the season for the two-time Home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":71727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1071],"tags":[5827,2844,376,375,180,1285],"class_list":["post-71704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mets","category-mlb","tag-cleon-jones","tag-darryl-strawberry","tag-david-wright","tag-jose-reyes","tag-mike-piazza","tag-nl-rookie-of-the-year"],"modified_by":"Chris Drosehn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}