NEW YORK — The New York Mets scored double-digit runs in three straight games for the first time in their 63-season history when they beat the Philadelphia Phillies 10-6 on Thursday night.
Coming off 10-1 and 10-0 routs of Washington, the Mets got home runs from Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Alvarez off Philadelphia starter Taijuan Walker.
Luisangel Acuña, a brother of Atlanta star Ronald Acuña Jr., drove in the 10th run with an RBI triple in the seventh off José Alvarado.
New York won its fourth straight game and for the 16th time in its last 20, maintaining a two-game lead over Atlanta for the NL’s final wild-card position.
The Mets did the bulk of their damage off Walker (3-7), who made his first start since Aug. 28 after being relegated to three bullpen appearances. He gave up a career-worst four homers along with eight runs, eight hits, three walks and a hit batter in 3 1/3 innings. His ERA rose to 6.91 in an outing that included his 1,000th strikeout.
Philadelphia pitchers walked a season-high eight.
Vientos put the Mets ahead with his 25th homer, a 113.2 mph line drive down the left-field line. Four pitches later, Alonso hit an opposite-field drive to right-center for his 34th homer, giving the Mets back-to-back long balls for the sixth time this season.
Six pitches into the bottom half of the third, Nimmo put the Mets ahead with his 21st home, a two-run drive to right-center. After Brandon Marsh’s RBI single closed the Phillies’ deficit to 4-3 in the fourth, Alvarez hit his third homer in six starts, a three-run drive in a five-run fourth that boosted the Mets lead to 7-3.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
