McMahon’s go-ahead homer in seventh lifts Rockies over Mets 10-7

DENVER — Ryan McMahon hit a go-ahead homer within the seventh inning and the Colorado Rockies outslugged the New York Mets 10-7 on Saturday night time after blowing an early six-run lead.

Charlie Blackmon’s two-run double in a five-run second helped the Rockies race out to a 6-0 benefit towards Justin Verlander after three innings.

Pete Alonso’s main league-high twentieth homer began New York’s comeback within the fourth, and the Mets tied it 6-all when rookie Francisco Álvarez capped a five-run sixth with a three-run homer off reliever Jake Bird.

Starling Marte’s two-out RBI single within the seventh put New York in entrance, however Elias Díaz doubled main off the underside half towards Jeff Brigham (0-1) and McMahon adopted with a two-run shot to proper discipline that traveled a projected 439 ft.

“I felt like I threw my best pitch in a decent spot and I thought McMahon put a good swing on it,” Brigham mentioned. “I’m not going to chalk it up to Coors Field. I’m just bummed that the guys fought back and got us a lead and I gave it right back.”

It was McMahon’s second residence run in two nights. He had gone the earlier 27 video games and not using a homer, tied for the third-longest drought of his profession.

PHOTOS: McMahon’s go-ahead homer in seventh lifts Rockies over Mets 10-7

“After feeling like you haven’t been coming through for the team a lot lately, it’s indescribable coming through for the guys,” McMahon mentioned. “That feeling, it’s a really good feeling.”

Jurickson Profar added an RBI triple within the eighth, extending his MLB-best on-base streak to 34 video games. He scored on Díaz’s single to make it 10-7.

Justin Lawrence (2-2) labored 1 1/3 scoreless innings and Pierce Johnson obtained three fast outs on six pitches for his eleventh save because the groups performed by means of rain late within the recreation.

“You keep playing, right?” Rockies supervisor Bud Black mentioned. “You saw the Mets turn the tables on us and then we turned the tables back on them. That was a game a lot of us have seen here. You’ve just got to hang in there, which we did.”

The victory moved Black right into a tie with Don Baylor for the second-most wins by a supervisor in franchise historical past.

Nolan Jones had two hits and two RBIs in his second recreation with Colorado since being known as up from Triple-A Albuquerque on Friday.

Alonso has homered in seven of his previous 11 video games. Álvarez additionally doubled and is batting .478 over his final seven video games.

Four of the Mets’ runs had been charged to Rockies reliever Brent Suter, who obtained solely two outs after permitting simply three earned runs in 31 innings previous to Saturday.

“After we took the lead, the emotions were high, super high,” Álvarez mentioned. “Even when we went back down, the emotions and the momentum still felt high. We felt we could win the game. But it just turned out that we came up a little short.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rockies: 1B C.J. Cron (again spasms) fielded grounders and has hit within the batting cage the previous two days. He was positioned on the 15-day injured checklist May 15. “He’s getting closer,” Black mentioned. … RHP Nick Mears (left indirect pressure) threw a bullpen and can throw once more Monday in Arizona.

UP NEXT

Mets RHP Tylor Megill (5-3, 4.32 ERA) faces LHP Austin Gomber (4-4, 6.48) within the rubber match of the three-game collection Sunday.