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Try it freeLOS ANGELES — Pete Alonso is bingeing again.
The player who carried the Mets offensively for this season’s first month before hibernating for much of May was without a multihomer game this season as Wednesday’s play against the Dodgers began.
Two big swings later, Alonso’s to-do list was an item shorter.
Alonso homered twice and drove in five runs — tying him for the NL lead in RBIs — in carrying the Mets to a 6-1 victory at Dodger Stadium.
After hitting a two-run blast in the first inning, Alonso delivered the knockout punch with a three-run shot in the eighth, allowing the Mets a measure of comfort after two straight nights of needing a 10th inning to decide the outcome.
The Mets, who won for the fifth time in six games, rebounded from their walk-off Tuesday loss by refusing to provide oxygen to the Dodgers.
That meant establishing a quick lead and using Griffin Canning’s right arm to stifle the Dodgers before Alonso could ice it with his rocket into the left field seats against Ryan Loutos.
Alonso’s two homers gave him three in the past five games, a stretch in which he has delivered 10 RBIs.
Overall, Alonso has 53 RBIs this season, tying him with Seiya Suzuki for the National League lead.
Rafael Devers leads MLB with 54 RBIs.
The Mets will go for the series victory on Thursday.
Already, they are 4-2 against the Dodgers this season.
Canning had to navigate a difficult stretch of the Dodgers lineup if he was going to complete six innings on this night.
Already, the Mets right-hander had struck out Shohei Ohtani to end the fifth. Canning’s mission now was Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández, and ideally just those three hitters.
Canning aced the test in 14 pitches, retiring the side in order.
It was the springboard the Mets needed with a tired bullpen. José Castillo followed with two shutout innings before Ryne Stanek surrendered a homer to Andy Pages in the ninth.
Alonso connected in the first inning for a two-run homer against Tony Gonsolin that gave Canning a 3-0 lead before he threw a pitch.
Francisco Lindor was drilled in the foot by a pitch leading off the game, and Brandon Nimmo reached on Enrique Hernández’s fielding error, putting runners on the corners.
Nimmo stole second and Juan Soto’s ensuing grounder brought in Lindor from third. Alonso jumped on a first-pitch slider and cleared the fence in right-center.
The Mets had a chance to widen that lead in the third, after Nimmo singled and Soto walked. But Gonsolin retired Alonso and Baty in succession to escape the inning.
Soto drew a two-out walk in the fifth, but Alonso whiffed — the Mets’ sixth strikeout of the night and third in two innings. Jared Young had walked leading off the fourth but was left stranded after Ronny Mauricio struck out for the second time and Jeff McNeil and Luis Torrens were retired.
Canning ended the fifth in grand style, throwing a full-count changeup that Ohtani watched for strike three. Canning on the previous pitch threw a slider for a strike that Ohtani thought was ball four as he started to first base.
After Canning retired Betts, Freeman and Teoscar Hernández in order in the sixth, the lefty Castillo escaped trouble in the seventh by striking out Dalton Rushing and Enrique Hernández in succession.
Castillo allowed a double to Pages and drilled Michael Conforto in the inning.
In the eighth, Nimmo was plunked and Soto walked before Alonso hit homer No. 14 this season.