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Alonso

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.

Alonso’s lone ball in play in the game was a 109.2-mph blast off Max Scherzer. He’s up to 110 RBI, putting Yordan Alvarez’s pursuit of a triple crown on life support. Alvarez is at 102 RBI right now. Alonso, Alvarez and Junior Caminero are all tied for the AL lead with 41 homers.

Alonso took Blue Jays starter Trey Yesavage deep in the opening frame before capping his multi-homer performance with a go-ahead two-run blast off reliever Tyler Rogers with two outs in the eighth, pushing him over the 40-homer threshold for the fourth time in his career. The 31-year-old run-producing force, who has homered six times in his last nine games, will finish his Orioles debut as a top-five fantasy option at first base and has delivered borderline first-round value overall, hitting .265/.359/.510 with 94 runs scored, 40 homers, 108 RBI and five steals in 157 games.

The AL leader in RBI added three more to his count on Friday when he blasted a three-run homer off of Dustin May in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game at 3-3 for the Orioles. It would be the only hit of the night for Alonso, whose last three hits have all resulted in homers. The Polar Bear is slashing .241/.333/.655 in his last seven games.

The home run was Alonso’s 300th of this career and 36th this season. He hit a game-tying solo shot off Kodai Senga with one out in the ninth inning. It was his only hit in eight at-bats so far in the series against the Mets. He’s hitting .267 with an .861 OPS and 101 RBI in his first year with the Orioles.

Alonso drove in the Orioles’ only run of the day with a single in the fifth inning. He’s now reached the 100-RBI plateau five times in his career. Thanks to his recent surge, Alonso leads the AL in RBI, which is exactly what the Orioles were hoping for when they signed him to a five-year, $155 million contract this past offseason.

Alonso hit a two-run homer off Paul Sewald in the seventh. He’s one homer away from 300 for his career and one RBI away from 100 this season.

Alonso has 34 homers and is now just three RBI away from reaching 100 for the fifth time in his career. He’s also two homers away from No. 300 for his career.

Alonso was removed for pinch-runner Jackson Holliday, but it sounds like it was more precautionary than anything else. Orioles manager Craig Albernaz said that Alonso was “fine” in the dugout, so he should be back in the lineup ASAP.

Orioles manager Craig Albernaz pretty much dismissed the notion that Alonso, who went 4-for-4 with his 31st homer of the season, was removed from Tuesday’s blowout win due to a minor calf issue. However, the fact that he’s at DH the following day seems to give those concerns some validity. It doesn’t appear to be a significant concern, but he dealt with a similar issue a couple weeks ago. It’s a variable that fantasy managers should continue monitoring for the remainder of the week.