Over the last couple of weeks, Pete Alonso has been trying to find his swing and rhythm at the plate. Going into Tuesday night’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets first baseman was in the middle of a 1-for-32 slump and had the night off on Monday. Well, he was one of the big catalysts in the Mets’ six-run fifth inning as they held on to defeat St. Louis 7-5 to secure the team’s first series win in two weeks.

It all started for Alonso in that fifth inning. With the game tied at three and runners at the corners with no one out, he took a 1-1 sinker at the bottom of the zone from Miles Mikolas and hit it over Michael Siani‘s head in right center for a two-run double.

If you look at Alonso’s success against different pitches, the sinker is one he thrived against in the early portion of the season. According to Brooks Baseball, he is 12-for-36 against that pitch with that home run and a .556 slugging percentage. It is also the pitch he has whiffed on the least (11.43%), so even though the pitch stayed up, he was able to at least find a way to put the pitch in play.

Later in the game, Alonso was up in the ninth against Chris Roycroft and took a 1-2 slider and hit a line drive solo home run to left center for his ninth home run of the year. It is the third time this year that he has driven in three runs in a game (first since April 13), and it was his first game with multiple hits since April 23 against the Giants.

After the game, manager Carlos Mendoza told the media about how Alonso not changing his mentality goes a long way in the clubhouse in terms of the team’s success being the

“That’s what makes him such a special player, a special human and what it means to this team and those guys in the locker room. He wants us to win…He’s 0-fer, but we’re shaking hands in the end of the game, and that’s what matters to him.”

The month of May has not been kind to Alonso so far. Over the last seven games, he has a slash line of .115/.179/.308 with one home run, four RBIs, nine strikeouts, and an OPS of .407. The nine strikeouts are second on the team in May behind Brett Baty (10). Plus, he has only one walk in his last 26 at-bats.

It is not surprising that Alonso will be boom-or-bust at the plate at times. Of his 29 hits this year, 14 have gone for extra bases (five doubles, nine home runs). That said, you rarely see Alonso get mired up in a slump like this. Could it be some of the contract year pressure getting to him? Who knows. What matters is the Mets need him to find that consistency at the plate again for this offense.

One game doesn’t wholly define getting out of a slump, but maybe Tuesday night is the game that gets Alonso back on track as the team heads into some tough series against the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies over the next week.