Tuesday night at Citi Field was all about waiting.

Waiting to see if Pete Alonso would tie Darryl Strawberry’s Mets franchise home run record with No. 252 (he didn’t).

And waiting to see if the Mets would snap out of their recent funk (they didn’t).

Newly-acquired reliever Tyler Rogers gave up the tie-breaking run in the seventh inning and the Mets dropped their seventh in eight games with a 3-2 loss to Cleveland before 39,895.

Alonso went 1-for-3 with a single and sacrifice fly. The Mets were held to four hits by five Guardians pitchers and didn't have a hit in the final five innings.

The game was tied at 2 with two outs in the seventh when Rogers gave up consecutive singles to Cleveland’s No. 8, 9 and 1 hitters. Steven Kwan’s ground-ball single to center drove in the go-ahead run.

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