Oakland A’s second baseman Zack Gelof falls after making a catch on the New York Mets Ben Gamel’s line out in the bottom of the eighth inning at Citi Field in New York on Wed Aug 14, 2024 (AP News photo)

By Jessica Kwong

NEW YORK. — The Oakland Athletics suffered a blowout 9-1 loss to the New York Mets to even the three-game interleague series at Citi Field at 1-1 on Wednesday night.

New York got revenge for the A’s 9-4 win in game one as Pete Alonso made four hits including a fourth-inning home run and three RBI.

In the first inning, Mark Vientos doubled on a ground ball to left field and Jesse Winker scored, putting the Mets up 1-0.

Francisco Lindor hit a home run on a fly ball to right center field in the third inning to boost New York up 2-0.

In the fourth inning, Alonso hit a home run on a fly ball to left center field and expanded the Mets’ lead to 3-0.

Oakland’s Daz Cameron went out on a sacrifice fly to center field in the sixth inning, allowing Miguel Andujar to score and cutting the Mets’ lead to 3-1.

But in the seventh inning, Lindor singled on a line drive to center field and Vientos scored, giving New York a 4-1 lead. Thanks to a wild pitch by relief pitcher Will Klein, Ben Gamel scored and the Mets were up 5-1. Then Brandon Nimmo went out on a sacrifice fly to center field and Francisco Alvarez scored, putting the home team up 6-1.

The A’s nightmare inning continued as J.D. Martinez doubled on a sharp line drive to right field and Lindor scored, then Alonso doubled on a ground ball to left field and Martinez and Harrison Bader scored, lifting the Mets up 9-1.

Mets starter David Peterson gave up one unearned run and walked four in 6 1/3 innings.

A’s starting pitcher Joey Estes (5-5) allowed three runs in 5 1/3 innings. A’s manager Mark Kotsay said he thought the starter did a good job.

“Overall he gave us an opportunity to stay in that game through his outing,” said Kotsay. “I don’t know if he felt great overall but I did think he did a nice job in just keeping us in the game, giving up a couple of runs and really trying to let the offense come back.”

Estes appeared to show up infielder Darrell Hernaiz for missing Vientos’ line drive double, but wanted to clear that up post-game.

“I was reacting out of emotion after the ball got way past Darell. I wasn’t reacting towards Darell. I’d never show up my boys. For people to not know who I am as a person kind of sucks,” clarified Estes. “Darell is my boy. I’d never do that to my teammates.”

The Mets (62-58) snapped their four-game losing streak and a six game losing streak against AL West opponents.

Oakland (51-70) has been held to one or no runs in 27 games this season, tied with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies for the third-most such games in the MLB.

First pitch for the final of the three-game series at Citi Field is at 10:10 a.m. PT.