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

The Mets have the best record in the National League The 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 - accomplishment to complete the three-game sweep Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso each launched two homers An broadcasted crowd of attended New York s Home Run Derby Alonso s homers gave him in his career moving him past David Wright for the second-most in franchise history Darryl Strawberry s homers are the greater part 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 - 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 New York took all seven games from Colorado The Rockies - record through their first games is tied with the Boston Red Sox for the worst start in the Modern Era since To avoid their third consecutive -loss season Colorado would have to go - for the remainder of the season That doesn t seem likely Related Articles Failure in the clutch Rockies lose to Mets as record slides to - Rockies Journal Bullish on the bullpen despite Colorado s awful record Rockies lose heartbreaker to Mets in the ninth inning on Francisco s Lindor s clutch double Rockies call up Ryan Ritter for MLB debut place Ezequiel Tovar on IL amid flurry of moves Rockies Hunter Goodman thriving behind the plate and emerging as All-Star Encounter candidate It might be June but Colorado s offense remains in hibernation The Mets mashed hits while the Rockies had but a bunch of the Rockies hits came well after the encounter 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 - 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 - Dollander s big-league instruction must include trigonometry calculus and physics because it hasn t been easy as his - record and 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 hits Dollander has allowed this season have gone over the wall and his home runs allowed per nine innings is the second-highest rate in the majors behind Toronto s Bowden Francis New York put the championship 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 -foot solo homer to dead center off Zach Agnos in the ninth Pitching probables Monday Off day Tuesday Giants LHP Kyle Harrison - ERA at Rockies LHP Carson Palmquist - p m Wednesday Giants LHP Robbie Ray - at Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland - p m Thursday Giants RHP Hayden Birdsong - at Rockies RHP Antonio Senzatela - p m Want more Rockies news Sign up for the Rockies Insider to get all our MLB analysis