Brandon Nimmo describes this 12 months’s Mets as essentially the most gifted workforce he’s ever performed for, however too usually, their largest bats haven’t synced up.
Juan Soto’s gradual begin lasted two months.
Francisco Lindor cooled off in June.
Pete Alonso endured an excellent colder July.
However with the Mets (79-74) preventing to nail down the third and ultimate Nationwide League Wild Card spot, their Fab 4, as proprietor Steve Cohen calls them, are coming collectively on the proper time.
Nimmo, Soto, Lindor and Alonso got here up huge in Thursday afternoon’s 6-1 win over the San Diego Padres at Citi Area, combining to drive in every of the Mets’ runs whereas scoring all however one among them.
“We have a very good lineup,” Nimmo mentioned. “We believe in our lineup. The sky’s the limit for us. … The potential is very high for this offense when we’re clicking.”
Alonso began the scoring within the first inning with a 445-foot solo residence run off of Randy Vasquez, marking the fourth recreation in a row that he’s homered.
Lindor singled in the course of the Mets’ four-run rally within the third inning, extending his hitting streak to seven video games.
Soto’s run-scoring groundout in that inning gave the Mets a 2-1 lead and accounted for his one centesimal RBI of the season.
And Nimmo blew the sport open with a three-run homer in opposition to reliever Wandy Peralta, profitable the left-on-left matchup to place the Mets up 5-1.
Alonso added a seventh-inning sacrifice fly to cap the Mets’ scoring.
These are the sorts of offensive outbursts the Mets envisioned within the offseason after they signed Soto to a record-setting 15-year, $765 million contract and introduced Alonso again on a two-year, $54 million cope with an opt-out.
“You always want to play your best baseball at the end of the year,” Alonso mentioned. “If we can continue to do that, it’s not about how you start, it’s not about how things happen in the middle, it’s about how you finish. If we keep continuing to stay within ourselves and do the best we can and execute, then we’re gonna be in a really good spot.”
Alonso’s newest energy surge has been a driving power within the Mets’ mini turnaround.
His walk-off residence run in opposition to the Texas Rangers on Sunday snapped the Mets’ season-worst eight-game dropping streak.
Together with that recreation, the Mets have now gained three of their final 4. Alonso is 6-for-14 with the 4 homers and 7 RBI in that stretch.
“He’s locked in, and when he’s doing things like that, he can carry a team,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned.
“We know he’s kind of a streaky hitter. We’ve seen it when he gets cold, and then he gets hot, [and when] he gets on one of those streaks, he’s pretty dangerous. Right now, where we’re at, if we get that kind of Pete Alonso, our offense will benefit.”
That is the third time Alonso has homered in 4 consecutive video games, matching a career-best feat he additionally achieved in August of 2019 and Might of 2023.
Alonso now has 37 residence runs, leaving him three away from his fourth 40-homer season. His 121 RBI rank second within the Nationwide League and are 10 shy of the Mets’ single-season document — which Alonso set in 2022 — with 10 video games to play.
“I’m just happy I’m seeing stuff to hit the middle of the zone,” Alonso mentioned. “Getting those pitches in the heart of the plate [and] not missing them is big.”
Soto, in the meantime, is hitting .263 with 41 homers, 100 RBI, a .922 OPS, 33 stolen bases, 115 runs and an MLB-leading 119 walks.
After batting .229 with 10 residence runs and 31 RBI by means of 62 video games, Soto has erupted with 31 homers and 69 RBI in his final 89.
“Special player. Special person,” Mendoza mentioned. “It’s really unbelievable when you look up at the scoreboard and you look at the numbers. He’s only going to get better. … It’s great that he’s putting up all the numbers, but he’s not here for that. He’s here to win.”
Lindor is 5-for-13 with a homer and 5 runs within the final 4 video games, whereas Nimmo is 4-for-15 with two homers and 5 RBI. Thursday’s residence run was Nimmo’s twenty fourth of the season, tying a profession excessive.
With the win, the Mets lowered their magic quantity to clinch a playoff spot to eight, although the Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds stay nicely inside putting distance.
However the Mets management their very own future — and with performances like Thursday’s from the highest of the order, the Mets have causes to dream about what they will do in October.
“We’ve got good hitters,” Mendoza mentioned. “We’ve just got to continue to go out and do it.”
Initially Printed: September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM EDT
