Vientos’s homer came on a 65-mph fastball from Amed Rosario in the ninth. Mets fans were actually rooting against it, since it denied Brandon Nimmo the chance of coming with multiple men on base to add to his total of nine RBI. It was Vientos’s third homer in 109 plate appearances this season. His numbers are on the way up — he’s hitting .320 in his last 13 games — but he’s still not really crushing the ball, at least against actual major league pitchers, like he did last year.

Vientos now has hits in 11 of his last 12 games and has gone 14-for-46 (.304) over that span with two home runs and 10 RBI. The process stats and plate discipline have been good for Vientos all season, so it’s nice to see the results start to fall into place. There is still some time to buy low in fantasy leagues.

Vientos was briefly the hero for the Mets in this one after hitting a shallow fly ball with the bases loaded and two out in the eighth inning that Dylan Crews dove for, missed, cleared the bases, and briefly put the Mets ahead. It was nice to see Vientos catch a break after a terrible first few weeks of the season and after the Mets fell victim to a faulty triple play earlier in this game on a missed call. Vientos also smoked a 106.0 mph single and 100.9 mph lineup earlier in this game, so hopefully he’s finally set to go on a hot streak.

Vientos, who is dealing with a groin injury, made his first start in three days and played nine innings for the first time in five days. To go along with the double tonight, he had a 337-foot flyout down the line that would have been a homer in seven ballparks.