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Mets Legend Makes Strong Statement After Historic Pete Alonso News originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
The New York Mets are trying to shake off their loss in last year’s National League Championship Series and assert themselves as the best team in Major League Baseball.
They have the best record in the National League at 42-24, and after splitting a four-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team that knocked them out of last year’s playoffs, they swept the Colorado Rockies, 3-0.
In Sunday’s game, Pete Alonso initially hit his 242nd career home run and his 16th of this year to tie with David Wright for the second-most homers in Mets’ franchise history. Soon, in the eighth inning, he surpassed Wright when he hit his No. 243.
Wright recorded a video in which he congratulated Alonso on the accomplishment.
“Pete, what’s going on, my man?” Wright said. “David Wright. Just a huge congratulations. You are one of the premier power hitters in the game. You easily passed me. Set Straw (Darryl Strawberry) in your sights and now go get him. Congratulations my man.”
Wright, who was nicknamed “Captain America,” played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball, all of them coming with the Mets. He was voted to the All-Star game seven times and won two Silver Slugger awards while going over 100 runs batted in for a season five times.
Alonso, 30, has been an All-Star in each of the previous three seasons and four times overall. He was the National League Rookie of the Year in 2019, and so far this year, he’s batting .301, which is by far a career high for him.
With superstar outfielder Juan Soto relocating to Queens from the Bronx, the Mets are hoping this is the year they finally win their first world championship since 1986.
The franchise’s all-time leader in home runs is Strawberry, who hit 252 of them with the Mets. He was one of the big stars on that memorable 1986 team that knocked off the Boston Red Sox to win it all.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.
