If “chicks dig the long ball,” as an advertising campaign once suggested, the Mets are spending plenty of time alone playing video games.
Overall, it’s a drought of 52 innings without a homer for the Mets since Pete Alonso went deep Wednesday in Cincinnati.
Alonso entered Monday as the MLB leader in home runs with 13, but behind him there’s been a drastic drop-off — Francisco Lindor is the only Mets player with more than three.The Mets’ lone offensive explosion over the last week occurred in the second game of a doubleheader Sunday, when they scored eight runs in the fifth inning.
Carlos Carrasco is a candidate for insertion into the rotation on Friday or Saturday, according to Showalter, depending upon how he comes through his upcoming work day.
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