Brandon Nimmo hit a grand slam and tied a record for the New York Mets with nine RBIs, helping the New York Mets crush the Washington Nationals 19-5 on Monday.
Nimmo also hit a three-run homer in his seventh career multi-homer game. The 32-year-old outfielder had four hits and scored four times after starting the day with a .192 batting average.
The Mets have won nine of 11 games overall to improve to a 20-9 record, the best in Major League Baseball at the moment.
Jeff McNeil and Mark Vientos also homered for New York, which finished with 21 hits. Vientos hit a three-run homer off Washington infielder Amed Rosario in the ninth.
Soto and Alonso’s numbers in the same game
Dominican Juan Soto went 4-2, with one run scored and one strikeout, while first baseman Pete Alonso had two hits in five at-bats, with one RBI and three runs scored, plus two strikeouts
The Mets led 3-0 when Colin Poche replaced Nationals starter Trevor Williams (1-3) with two on in the sixth. Nimmo greeted the left-hander with a 2-0 fastball that went to right-center field.
An inning later, the Mets loaded the bases when Nimmo sent Cole Henry’s fastball into the right-field stands for the second grand slam of his career.
Nimmo added a two-run double in the eighth inning to tie the franchise record for RBIs, set by Carlos Delgado in the first game of a doubleheader against the New York Yankees almost 17 years ago on June 27, 2008.
Nimmo’s reflection after a great Monday afternoon
Nimmo had the opportunity to review his performance with Mets first base coach Antoan Richardson.
“He said, ‘Well, nine RBIs, that must be the best of your career, right?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, it definitely is.’ I didn’t know it tied a franchise record, but I did know how many RBIs I had,” Nimmo recalled.
I think before this, my personal best was five, and that was also an amazing day. These days don’t come around that often, and you just relax and enjoy it.
He became the third player with nine or more RBIs in a span of three innings within a game since RBIs became an official statistic in 1920, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
He joined Ivan Rodriguez in the first three innings on April 13, 1999, and Sammy Sosa between the third and fifth innings on August 20, 2002.
Nimmo finished with four hits in his seventh multi-homer game, raising his batting average from .192 to .218. He was hitting .149 (7-for-47) without extra-base hits in his previous 12 games.
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