Mets OF Brandon Nimmo breaks out of slump, drives in 9 to tie franchise record

WASHINGTON AP Brandon Nimmo got a chance to go over his breakout performance with New York Mets first base coach Antaon Richardson With a grand slam and nine RBIs on the day there was a lot to talk about He s like Well nine ribbies that s got to be a career high right Nimmo noted And I was like Yeah that definitely is I didn t know it tied a franchise record but I did know how various RBIs I had I think before this my career high was five and that was an amazing day as well These days don t come around that often and you kind of sit back and enjoy it Nimmo s performance powered the Mets to a - mastery over the Washington Nationals He equaled the franchise record for RBIs set by Carlos Delgado in the first competition of a doubleheader against the New York Yankees on June The -year-old outfielder hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and his second career slam in the seventh He also doubled home two runs in the eighth Nimmo finished with four hits in his seventh career multihomer championship raising his batting average from to He hit for with no extra-base hits in his previous games He s a really good competitor Mets manager Carlos Mendoza mentioned He s a good hitter At particular point you know those guys are going to come out of it It s part of a big league season where at times it s going to be hard And then you ll see games like this Hopefully we ll start seeing the Nimmo we all know Nimmo s previous career high was five RBIs at Atlanta on April He went deep four times in his first games this year but he had struggled to produce since then He had his first multihit competition since April in Friday s series opener then followed it up with back-to-back -for- performances I ve been hitting the ball harder lately and that s usually a good sign Nimmo noted Where there s smoke there s fire usually Just trying to stay with it and keep trusting that it would come along Nimmo s sixth-inning homer off reliever Colin Poche bumped New York s lead to - and his grand slam off Cole Henry made it - His two-run double against Eduardo Salazar extended New York s advantage to - Nimmo got another plate appearance in the ninth but he grounded out right after Mark Vientos homered off infielder Amed Rosario I was thinking Man it would be really cool to get double-digit RBIs in a day when I was coming up before Swaggy hit the three-run homer Nimmo explained Was not able to get over the top of that But hey it s still really awesome to me all the same to be able to be in Mets history like that AP MLB https apnews com hub mlb Source