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Ronny Mauricio bat flips his first career home run on Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
QUEENS — Ronny Mauricio crushed his first career home run, and Pete Alonso and Francisco Alvarez provided long balls of their own as the New York Mets held off the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4 on Tuesday night at Citi Field.
In the fourth inning of a 1-1 game, Mauricio — who made his MLB debut on Sept. 1 and was playing in his 10th career game — jumped all over a 2-0 92-mph fastball that was up in the zone, sending it into the second deck of the Coca-Cola corner in right field at Citi Field. With an exit velocity of 112.4 mph, the benchmark round-tripper traveled an estimated 440 feet.
“It’s incredible,” Mauricio said through a translator. “It was an exciting moment there. The way I think about it, it’s just a moment that’s unbelievable… When you square up a ball like that, you know that it’s going to go far or when you feel it off the bat, you know that you put some good wood on it.”
.@Ronny__Mauricio goes to the 2nd deck for his 1st career homer! pic.twitter.com/DZubNI62OB
— MLB (@MLB) September 13, 2023
The Mets (66-78) scored six unanswered runs after Kettel Marte put the Diamondbacks in front with an RBI triple in the top of the third inning.
Brandon Nimmo led off the bottom of the frame with a triple of his own and came in to score on Francisco Lindor’s sacrifice fly. DJ Stewart then led off the fourth inning with a single to set the stage for Mauricio’s mammoth shot to make it 3-1.
Lindor picked up his second RBI of the night in the fifth with a run-scoring single, driving in Nimmo after he doubled to lead off the frame. While he was eliminated on the bases thanks to a Jeff McNeil fielder’s choice, Alonso cleared the bases with a monster shot into the left-field seats for his…
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