PHILADELPHIA — That’s one for each game of the now deceased losing streak.
The Mets turned to a tried-and-tested method for success Saturday night, smashing seven home runs to snap a seven-game losing streak with an 11-4 victory over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
Brandon Nimmo and Juan Soto each homered twice and Francisco Lindor, Jared Young and Francisco Alvarez joined the parade with blasts on a night the Mets amassed 15 hits to finally exhale.
All seven home runs occurred with the bases empty. It tied a major league record for solo homers in a game.
The top three in the lineup — Lindor, Nimmo and Soto — combined to drive in nine of the runs.
The Mets, who moved into a tie with the Phillies atop the NL East, had scored only 16 runs during the losing streak.
“It was good to get one, but we have got a long way to go,” manager Carlos Mendoza said.
Nimmo was philosophical about the losing streak before it was snapped, telling The Post:
“Sometimes it’s just your time to fail. It doesn’t mean that you are OK with it. Aaron Judge, for example — amazing hitter, unbelievable job, AL MVP. But in the playoffs, it was a huge slump. Did he want to pick that time for it to happen? No. But it’s baseball. It happens to everyone.”
After the win, Nimmo was equally level-headed.
“You’re like, ‘OK, great, it brought us a win, now we have got to go do it again tomorrow,’ ” Nimmo said. “Especially when you put up runs like that, we had a long game. Now it’s big on focusing on recovery and being ready for a dogfight [Sunday]. This is now in the past.”
Griffin Canning rebounded from shaky innings early and got the team through the fifth.
He allowed four runs, one of which was unearned, on six hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
He departed after 94 pitches.
Nimmo homered in the first for the game’s initial run, but the Phillies countered with two runs against Canning in the bottom of the inning.
Nick Castellanos smashed an RBI double and Max Kepler’s ground out brought in the other run.
Canning allowed consecutive one-out singles to Kyle Schwarber and Alec Bohm, fueling the rally.
Otto Kemp scored on Canning’s wild pitch in the second to extend the Phillies’ lead to 3-1.
Kemp doubled with one out.
Lindor homered leading off the third to begin a barrage in the inning.
Nimmo blasted his second homer of the game and Soto cleared the right field fence, putting the Mets ahead 4-3.
It gave the Mets back-to-back-to-back homers for the 10th time in franchise history.
The Mets have won 28 straight games in which Lindor has homered, one short of the MLB record.
“I wish I would have hit home runs in Atlanta,” Lindor said, referring to the Mets’ three straight losses to the Braves on this road trip.
Soto’s second blast of the night — a shot that reached the mezzanine in right on a hanging breaking ball from Joe Ross — extended the Mets’ lead to 5-3.
It was the third multihomer game of the season for Soto. He is two behind Alonso’s 18 homers this season for the team lead.
“I have been feeling good since Day 1,” Soto said when asked if his recent stretch of games has been the most locked in he’s felt this season. “Things just haven’t gone my way and finally I am getting some luck and just going from there.”
Jeff McNeil’s two-base error on Trea Turner’s fly to center leading off the fifth led to the Phillies scoring an unearned run to slice the Mets’ lead to 5-4.
On the play, Nimmo and McNeil converged, with the ball hitting off McNeil’s glove following the communication snafu.
Bohm’s single brought in the run.
Lindor delivered a two-run double in the sixth that gave the Mets a 7-4 cushion.
Alvarez and Ronny Mauricio each singled before Lindor hit a shot toward the right-field foul pole that nearly became his second homer of the night.
The ball hit the fence, allowing both runners to score.
Young homered leading off the eighth for the Mets’ sixth blast of the night, placing the Phillies in an 8-4 hole.
Soto’s two-run single in the inning added to the cushion.
Alvarez went deep in the ninth against Taijuan Walker for the Mets’ final run.
