Pete Alonso stood with a sliver of sunlight streaking across home plate, the bases loaded and two outs, hoping to cap the New York Mets' comeback from a three-run, ninth-inning deficit. Seattle's Diego Castillo fed the NL RBI co-leader a stream of sliders: low and outside, over the middle for a called strike, outside and then way outside as Alonso swung and missed. Another outside worked the count full, and then the next one dived to the dirt past the outside corner as Alonso tried to hold up his swing. Hunter Wendelstedt waited two seconds as the crowd of 38,476 wondered, and then the plate umpire pointed to first with both arms. Chad Whitson raised his right hand and to signal: Out! Mariners exhaled. The Mets and their fans groaned. "Originally it looked like a strike, and then I saw that it wasn't going to be," Alonso said. "I tried to hold up. Oh, well. Got to move on." New York fell short and lost a series for the first time this season. With a thrilling 8-7 victory Sunday, the Mariners took two of three from the team with the National League's best record on a weekend when all three games were decided by one run. Read more https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401354761
