The Mets’ offense has been in desperate need of some power to start the season, and on Sunday afternoon Mark Vientos was the man to deliver.
Vientos crushed not one, but two homers to help New York secure the series win over the Angels.
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His first came in the top of the fourth when he demolished a 2-0 Jack Kochanowicz sinker 427 feet to the rock pile in center to give the Mets a 2-1 advantage.
Vientos joked postgame that he liked that one better.
“I got all of it, hit it pretty good,” he said.
The second one was also a big one for the Mets, though, as it helped extend the lead and put the game away for good in the top of the eighth.
Vientos jumped on a 2-1 Nick Sandlin sinker at the top of the zone, ripping it 103.3 mph over the left-field fence.
It was the sixth multi-homer game of Vientos’ career.
“I was just trying to put together good at-bats,” he said. “I know when I’m on and I’m feeling good that I’m a game-changer especially with the bat, and I got the job done today.”
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And it wasn’t just today, as Vientos has been swinging a much-better bat of late.
The slugger has turned things around very nicely at the plate — hitting .275 with two doubles, three homers, seven RBI, and a .891 OPS over his last 12 games.
“I feel good,” he said. “I like the at-bats I’ve taken the past few days, I just want to keep on it, keep putting good at-bats together, and just take it into this series in Colorado.”
With all of the Mets’ injuries, this would be the perfect time for him to catch fire.
“We’ve seen it when he’s going, when he’s driving the ball,” Carlos Mendoza said. “We haven’t seen it in a while, but when he gets hot he can carry a team — that’s the power and the hitter he’s capable of, he came through today.”
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