Pete Alonso went 3-for-5 with two more homers and three RBI as the Orioles routed the Yankees 10-2 in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader.
Alonso hit a 407-foot homer off Brendan Beck in the third, extending a streak in which his last seven hits had been homers. He broke that up with a single in the fourth, but he went on to homer again in the seventh anyway. That one left the bat at 113 mph and was projected at 471 feet. If that holds up, it’d be tied for the second longest in his career, behind a 489-footer he hit as a rookie. Alonso is up to 43 homers, giving him two more than Yordan Alvarez and Junior Caminero for the AL lead. He’s tied Alec Burleson for first in the majors with 113 RBI, putting him 11 in front of Alvarez for the AL lead.