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NEW YORK — Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and the 2024 New York Mets accomplished what the Darryl Strawberry teams of the 1980s and all their other predecessors failed to: score double-digit runs in three straight games. Alonso, Nimmo, Mark Vientos and Francisco Alvarez homered in a 10-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night that followed 10-1 and 10-0 routs of the Washington Nationals. It was the 9,963rd regular-season game in the 63-season history of the Mets, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. New York won its fourth straight game and for the 16th time in its last 20, maintaining a two-game lead over Atlanta for the NL's final wild-card position.
