The Mets are the kings of the Citi and at the moment the kings of the sport. The team with the best record at home and the best record period is playing its best baseball of this short season, putting on display arguably its crispest game of the season. Mets bats remained scorching and have scored 34 runs in three games.

Despite a lopsided score and home runs by Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso and Starling Marte, the most impressive inning for the Mets was one in which they didn’t have to swing the bats at all. In the top of the fourth inning,

New York Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo put himself in rare MLB company after a record night versus the Washington Nationals.

Brandon Nimmo hit a grand slam and a three-run homer and finished with nine RBIs in the Mets' 19-5 destruction of the Nationals on Monday.

Brandon Nimmo had four hits, including a grand slam and a three-run homer, and drove in a career-high nine runs as the visiting New York Mets routed the Washington Nationals 19-5 on Monday to earn a four-game series split.