This all really started for the Mets, this big baseball story they’re still trying to write, the first week of April, when they were 0-5 and playing the second game of a doubleheader against the Tiger

Pete Alonso golfed an early three-run homer and the New York Mets hammered an ineffective Jack Flaherty, extending the National League Championship Series with a 12-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5.

Pete Alonso's 432-foot homer was the longest by a Met in the postseason since Statcast began tracking, surpassing the 431-foot shot Travis d'Arnaud hit off the Home Run Apple in 2015. (The next day, Mets workers placed a bandage on the apple.)