Francisco Alvarez appears to be finding his groove down in Triple-A.
The Mets' young backstop lifted a 434-foot three-run shot on Saturday night, and he followed that up with another strong showing on Sunday.
After failing to reach in each of his first two plate appearances, Alvarez stepped to the plate with Syracuse trailing by a run in the fifth, and he ripped a double over center fielder Robert Hassell III’s head.
It left the bat at an impressive 109.6 mph and one-hopped the fence.
He would score the game-tying run just three pitches later, as the red hot Pablo Reyes tripled down the left-field line as part of a three-hot effort.
Alvarez was called out on strikes with a man in scoring position in the seventh, but he was able to do more damage two innings later, as he crushed a go-ahead two-run homer to deep left-center.
This one left the bat at 107.2 mph and traveled 412 feet.
The 23-year-old has now gone deep on back-to-back days after going hitless in each of his first three games following his demotion from the big-league level.
Luisangel Acuña reached base for the sixth time in seven games since he was sent back down — lining a one out single in the top of the seventh, and he picked up his third stolen base of the season at the level.
On the pitching side of things Syracuse’s bullpen was pretty impressive — youngster Dom Hamel tossed two scoreless innings, Rico Garcia put up a zero of his own, Austin Warren struck out the side in the eighth, and Justin Garza locked down the save.
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