DENVER _ After hitting the game-winning, ninth-inning home run Sunday afternoon, Brandon Nimmo admitted he wasn't sure that two wins in a row were enough to springboard the Mets to turn around a season on the brink of irrelevance.
But on Monday, Nimmo provided all the momentum the Mets needed.
He homered twice, including an inside-the-park home run, as the Mets beat the Rockies 12-2 at Coors Field.
It's now officially a winning streak with the Mets (31-38) having taken three straight.
Jacob deGrom picked up his first victory since May 18, holding the Rockies to two runs, one earned, on five hits over eight innings. He walked one and struck out seven. It was the 10th time in his last 11 starts he has allowed one earned run or fewer and just the third time he has earned the win in that span.
Wilmer Flores also homered and Devin Mesoraco had a two-run homer in the eighth, and the Mets then poured on six more runs in the ninth to put the Rockies away.
But Nimmo was the engine that drove the Mets on Monday night. He tied a career-high with four RBIs and a career-high tying four hits.
He led off with the inside-the-parker on a fly ball to right center field, which was lost in the shadows initially, and it took a weird bounce off the fence and again off the warning track. The "hometown boy" sped around the bases, needing just 14.70 seconds, according to StatCast. It was the fastest home-to-home for the Mets this season. It was the Mets' first inside-the-park home run since Sept. 2, 2015 when Ruben Tejada did it against Philadelphia.
In the seventh, Nimmo hit his second of the night, a 445-foot shot to right field. It was his second career multi-home run game, the first since Sept. 7, 2017 against Cincinnati.
He's the first Met to have an inside-the-park and outside-the-park home run in the same game since Angel Pagan on Aug. 23, 2009.
And Nimmo did it all with a large contingent of family and friends in the stands at Coors Field, the ballpark he came to as a kid growing up in nearby Wyoming.
