Martinez, Lindor and Alonso rally Mets over Diamondbacks’ 3-2 skid

NEW YORK — J.D. Martinez hit an eighth-inning home run, Francisco Lindor had four hits and a walk-off after Pete Alonso doubled as a pinch hitter and the New York Mets maintained their dominance over the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 3-2 victory on Thursday night.

Arizona ace Zac Gallen was injured and left after his sixth pitch, forcing the NL champions to use relief pitchers for 24 outs. The Diamondbacks (25-31) then squandered a two-run lead and lost their fourth straight, season-high six games under .500. Arizona has scored nine runs in the last six games.

“We did a great job of breaking the cycle of, obviously, losing,” Alonso said. “And when you get out of that cycle, we can start building on a day-to-day basis.”

New York (23-33) snapped a four-game losing streak and won for just the second time in 10 games. The Mets have won 20 of the last 24 games against the Diamondbacks, outscoring them 138-62, and 16 of the last 18 games against Arizona at Citi Field.

Ketel Marte had a two-run double in the third off rookie Christian Scott, who allowed four hits in six innings.

Lindor hit a home run in the third inning against Brandon Hughes and an RBI single in the seventh against Ryan Thompson (2-2) after Alonso doubled Joe Mantiply in his first at-bat appearance since 2021. Alonso left Wednesday’s game when he was reached. the right hand for a throw; the tests were negative.

Thompson was ahead of Lindor 1-2 in the count.

“My thought process is I don’t throw a lot of left-handed sliders,” Thompson said. “I was thinking he should know that, that I don’t throw left-handed sliders, so I thought it was a good idea. that situation. … After throwing, I think, three straight sinkers at him, I was like, throw a slider here and maybe go back to the sinker, and I just threw a really bad sinker.

Martinez scored Thompson’s eighth, a shot that connected with the black batter’s eye from beyond center field for his fourth home run this season. Martinez, 36, a six-time All-Star, played for the Diamondbacks in 2017.

Rookie Danny Young (2-0) pitched the eighth as the Mets’ struggling bullpen threw four hitless innings in relief of Scott. Reed Garrett got three outs in his third save after a leadoff walk in the ninth, capping a four-hit at-bat.

“They’re absorbing it now and it’s painful. It hurts,” Diamondbacks coach Torey Lovullo said. “It hurts a lot because we care and I’m okay with that. But at some point we managed to scroll through and understand why we lost this baseball game. There were some things we did wrong and we just need to find a way to fix them and we’ll be fine.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Diamondbacks: SS Gerardo Perdomo, sidelined since April 3 with a torn right meniscus, is expected to play his first rehab game Friday as DH in the Arizona Complex League. Perdomo and OF Alek Thomas, sidelined since March 31 with a strained left hamstring, each had 10 hits during Wednesday’s practice. … RHP Merrill Kelly (right shoulder strain) is expected to begin a throwing program next week. … RHP Miguel Castro (right shoulder inflammation) is throwing from 75 feet. … Luis Frías (right shoulder inflammation) could play in an ACL game next week, possibly Tuesday.

Mets: C Francisco Alvarez (sprained left thumb) began a rehab assignment with Double-A Binghamton and hit a three-run homer in the second inning. He was 1-for-2 with a walk.

NEXT

LHP Jordan Montgomery (3-2, 4.69) starts for the Diamondbacks on Friday and RHP Luis Severino (2-2, 3.22) for the Mets.

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