The Mets couldn't complete the three-game sweep, falling to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field by a score of 8-5.

Here are the key takeaways...

-Jose Quintana was bitten by the home run bug again and again on Sunday, serving up four homers to Rockies hitters. Ezequiel Tovar jumped on a fastball in the first inning to put the Rockies up 2-0, and things snowballed from there. Michael Toglia homered twice off of Quintana, and Brenton Doyle got to him as well.

Quintana gave the Mets 5.2 innings, but four of the six hits he surrendered were home runs. He allowed five earned runs while striking out eight and walking one.

Adrian Houser allowed another two-run bomb to Tovar in the seven, and then gave up Toglia's third homer of the game in the eighth, as Mets pitchers allowed a total of six big flies on Sunday.

-Pete Alonso hadn’t homered since July 2, but he broke out of that drought with a bang in the fourth inning, demolishing a two-run shot off of German Marquez to tie the game at 2-2.

Alonso’s 19^th homer of the season was perhaps some foreshadowing for Monday’s Home Run Derby, as the Polar Bear will look to win it for the third time.

-After the Rockies had broken the game open at 8-3, the Mets refused to go down without a fight, scoring a pair in the inning thanks in part to an RBI hit from Jeff McNeil. But with the tying run at the plate and two away, Francisco Alvarez stung a ball to center, only for Doyle to make a good running catch to end the threat.

-Jose Iglesias just keeps on hitting. The veteran and “OMG” singer had four more hits on Sunday, and while he doesn’t have enough at-bats to qualify among the league leaders, he’s now hitting .380 this season with a .999 OPS.

-Francisco Lindor had another tremendous day both at the plate and in the field. The shortstop reached base four times, including a bases-loaded walk that forced in a run. He also played his typical, routinely-excellent defense at short, again showing why he deserved to be on the NL All-Star roster.

-J.D. Martinez was given the day off after going 0-for-5 yesterday, but he came to the plate as a pinch-hitter in the ninth, representing the tying run. Martinez went down swinging to end the game.

Who was the game MVP?

Toglia, who now has 34 hits this season, 16 of which are home runs.

Here are the key takeaways...

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