NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor once again homered in a victory and Clay Holmes threw a career-high seven innings Sunday as the New York Mets completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 5-3 win.
Pete Alonso hit a three-run shot and Juan Soto also went deep as the Mets won for the seventh time in eight games to finish a 7-2 homestand. They regained sole possession of first place in the NL East, moving a game ahead of Philadelphia.
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New York Mets players, including Brett Baty, left, Francisco Lindor, second from left, Pete Alonso, second from right, and Mark Vientos (27), celebrate after a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets players, including Brett Baty, left, Francisco Lindor, second from left, Pete Alonso, second from right, and Mark Vientos (27), celebrate after a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets pitcher Clay Holmes throws during the third inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets' Juan Soto hits a solo home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets' Pete Alonso looks after his three-run homer during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets' Pete Alonso, left, and Juan Soto, right, celebrate after a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The Rockies lost their eighth straight and fell to 9-50, the worst record through 59 games of any major league team in the modern era (since 1901). They have been swept 10 times in 20 series — tied for the most sweeps through 20 series with the 1962 Mets, the 1970 Milwaukee Brewers and the 1994 Oakland Athletics.
Alonso homered in the fourth before Lindor snapped a 3-all tie an inning later. The Mets have won the last 26 games in which Lindor has homered, the second-longest streak in big league history behind the 29-game run authored by Carl Furillo and the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1951-53.
Soto connected in the eighth to make it 5-3.
Holmes (5-3) gave up three hits — including Orlando Arcia’s first-inning solo homer and Tyler Freeman’s two-run shot in the fifth. He struck out three and walked none.
The right-hander, who entered this season with 300 consecutive relief appearances dating to 2019, has lasted at least six innings in six of his last eight starts.
Reed Garrett and Edwin Díaz tossed a scoreless inning apiece, with Díaz earning his 13th save.
Rockies rookie Carson Palmquist (0-3) gave up four runs in 4 2/3 innings but struck out eight — two more than he’d fanned in his first three starts combined.
Lindor’s homer came just after Freeman’s tying shot in the fifth.
The Rockies haven’t held a lead at the end of consecutive innings since they led for the final four innings of their most recent win, a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees on May 23.
Rockies RHP Germán Márquez (1-7, 7.13 ERA) starts Monday in Miami against RHP Max Meyer (3-4, 4.53).
Mets RHP Paul Blackburn is scheduled to make his season debut Monday night at Dodger Stadium in the opener of a four-game series. Blackburn has been rehabbing from right knee inflammation.
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New York Mets players, including Brett Baty, left, Francisco Lindor, second from left, Pete Alonso, second from right, and Mark Vientos (27), celebrate after a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets pitcher Clay Holmes throws during the third inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets' Juan Soto hits a solo home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets' Pete Alonso looks after his three-run homer during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Mets' Pete Alonso, left, and Juan Soto, right, celebrate after a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Glenn Hall, a Hockey Hall of Famer whose ironman streak of 502 starts as a goaltender remains an NHL record, has died. He was 94.
Nicknamed “Mr. Goalie,” Hall worked to stop pucks at a time when players at his position were bare-faced, before masks of any kind became commonplace. He did it as well as just about anyone of his generation, which stretched from the days of the Original Six into the expansion era.
A spokesperson for the Chicago Blackhawks confirmed the team received word of Hall’s death from his family. A league historian in touch with Hall’s son, Pat, said Hall died at a hospital in Stony Plain, Alberta, on Wednesday.
A pioneer of the butterfly style of goaltending of dropping to his knees, Hall backstopped Chicago to the Stanley Cup in 1961. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs in 1968 with St. Louis when the Blues reached the final before losing to Montreal. He was the second of just six Conn Smythe winners from a team that did not hoist the Cup.
His run of more than 500 games in net is one of the most untouchable records in sports, given how the position has changed in the decades since. Second in history is Alec Connell with 257 from 1924-30.
“Glenn was sturdy, dependable and a spectacular talent in net,” Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “That record, set from 1955-56 to 1962-63, still stands, probably always will, and is almost unfathomable — especially when you consider he did it all without a mask.”
Counting the postseason, Hall started 552 games in a row.
Hall won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1956 when playing for the Detroit Red Wings. After two seasons, he was sent to the Black Hawks along with legendary forward Ted Lindsay.
Hall earned two of his three Vezina Trophy honors as the league's top goalie with Chicago, in 1963 and '67. The Blues took him in the expansion draft when the NHL doubled from six teams to 12, and he helped them reach the final in each of their first three years of existence, while winning the Vezina again at age 37.
Hall was in net when Boston's Bobby Orr scored in overtime to win the Cup for the Bruins in 1970, a goal that's among the most famous in hockey history because of the flying through the air celebration that followed. He played one more season with St. Louis before retiring in 1971.
“His influence extended far beyond the crease," Blues chairman Tom Stillman said. “From the very beginning, he brought credibility, excellence, and heart to a new team and a new NHL market.”
A native of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Hall was a seven-time first-team NHL All-Star who had 407 wins and 84 shutouts in 906 regular-season games. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1975, and his No. 1 was retired by Chicago in 1988.
Hall was chosen as one of the top 100 players in the league's first 100 years.
Blackhawks chairman and CEO Danny Wirtz called Hall an innovator and “one of the greatest and most influential goaltenders in the history of our sport and a cornerstone of our franchise.”
“We are grateful for his extraordinary contributions to hockey and to our club, and we will honor his memory today and always,” Wirtz said.
The Blackhawks paid tribute to Hall and former coach and general manager Bob Pulford with a moment of silence before Wednesday night’s game against St. Louis. Pulford died Monday.
A Hall highlight video was shown on the center-ice videoboard. The lights were turned off for the moment of silence, except for a spotlight on the No. 1 banner for Hall that hangs in the rafters at the United Center.
Fellow Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur, the league's leader in wins with 691 and games played with 1,266, posted a photo of the last time he saw Hall along with a remembrance of him.
“Glenn Hall was a legend, and I was a big fan of his,” Brodeur said on social media. “He set the standard for every goaltender who followed. His toughness and consistency defined what it meant to play.”
AP Sports Writer Jay Cohen in Chicago contributed to this report.
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FILE - Glenn Hall, second from left, stands with fellow former Chicago Blackhawks players Stan Mikita, former general manager Tommy Ivan, Bobby Hull, Bill Wirtz and Tony Esposito during a pre-game ceremony at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Ill., April 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)
FILE - St. Louis Blues goalie Glenn Hall, top right, is pinned to his net waiting to make a save on a Montreal Canadians shot as Blues' Noel Picard (4) tries to block the puck while Canadiens' John Ferguson (22) and Ralph Backstorm wait for a rebound in the third period of their NHL hockey Stanley Cup game, May 5, 1968. (AP Photo/Fred Waters, File)
