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Now the questions become, how many and for how long?

Pete Alonso moved Darryl Strawberry into his all-time Mets homer record rearview mirror on Tuesday night . He did it in style. Not just with the franchise record-setting 253rd homer, a two-run blast in the third inning off Atlanta’s Spencer Strider, but No. 254 as well in the sixth off Austin Cox.

Strawberry had held this distinction for 3 ¹/₂ decades, and it is not like Alonso’s is going to be passed any time soon. Maybe Francisco Lindor will stay healthy and powerful enough through his 10-year contract to mount a charge. Or Juan Soto somewhere within his 1

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