Mets hit six homers as overmatched Rockies tumble to 12-53 record

Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post on Jun 8, 2025

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — The New York Mets have the best record in the National League. The Colorado Rockies have the worst record in the majors. The talent gap between the two clubs looks like the Grand Canyon.

The proof is in the pummeling.

The Mets slugged six home runs Sunday afternoon at Coors Field in a 13-5 victory to complete the three-game sweep. Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso each launched two homers. An announced crowd of 40,548 attended New York’s Home Run Derby.

Alonso’s homers gave him 243 in his career, moving him past David Wright (242) for the second-most in franchise history. Darryl Strawberry’s 252 homers are the most in Mets history.

Rockies starter Chase Dollander continues to be hurt by the longball. McNeil tagged him for a leadoff homer in the second, and Alonso hit a two-run blast in the third.

The Mets (42-24) not only swept the weekend series but also, on the heels of taking three from Colorado last weekend in Queens, swept the season series for just the second time in their history. In 2015, New York took all seven games from Colorado.

The Rockies’ 12-53 record through their first 65 games is tied with the 1932 Boston Red Sox for the worst start in the Modern Era (since 1901). To avoid their third consecutive 100-loss season, Colorado would have to go 51-46 for the remainder of the season. That doesn’t seem likely.

It might be June 8, but Colorado’s offense remains in hibernation. The Mets mashed 17 hits while the Rockies had 10, but a bunch of the Rockies’ hits came well after the game was decided. And here’s a statistic that should make the gray-haired Blake Street Bombers cringe: At Coors Field this season, opponents have outhomered Colorado 44-28.

Mets right-hander Tylor Megill no-hit Colorado for four innings until Sam Hilliard led off the fifth with a double into the right-field corner. Hilliard scored on catcher Braxton Fullford’s single, and Fullford scored on Jordan Beck’s double, cutting the Mets’ lead to 8-2.

Dollander’s big-league education must include trigonometry, calculus and physics, because it hasn’t been easy, as his 2-6 record and 6.85 record show. He departed after just three innings, giving up five runs on eight hits, including two home runs.

Serving up home runs has hurt Dollander throughout his rookie season. Of the 47 hits Dollander has allowed this season, 12 have gone over the wall, and his 2.42 home runs allowed per nine innings is the second-highest rate in the majors behind Toronto’s Bowden Francis.

New York put the game away in the fourth with McNeil’s three-run homer off Juan Mejia, and rubbed it in with a two-run blast to right by Brett Baty in the seventh off Seth Halvorsen, Alonso’s two-run homer off Tyler Kinley in the eighth, and Francisco Alverez’s 450-foot solo homer to dead center off Zach Agnos in the ninth.

Pitching probables

Monday: Off day

Tuesday: Giants LHP Kyle Harrison (1-1, 4.34 ERA) at Rockies LHP Carson Palmquist (0-4, 8.50), 8:40 p.m. ET.

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