PHILADELPHIA — It figured there needed to be something special — REALLY special — to overshadow both David Wright hitting a home run in his first at-bat since April 14 and the shortest outing of Jacob deGrom’s major league career.
Are franchise records of eight home runs and 15 extra-base hits by the suddenly downright offensively frightening Mets special enough?
Wilmer Flores, in a five-RBI performance, smacked two homers while Juan Lagares, Travis d’Arnaud, Michael Cuddyer, Daniel Murphy and Yoenis Cespedes all joined Wright with one apiece as the Mets rallied from a five-run deficit to claim their fourth straight victory, a 16-7 destruction of pitch-poor Philadelphia on Monday at Citizens Bank Park.