Brandon Nimmo had been mired in a brutal slump since last summer, but he broke out in historic fashion in a beatdown against the Nationals on Monday afternoon.
The Mets outfielder drove in nine runs in a monster 4-for-6 performance, tying Carlos Delgado for the most RBI in a single game in franchise history. Stepping to the plate with the bases loaded and needing 3 RBI to break Delgado’s record, Nimmo yanked a hard grounder just inside the first base line and into the right field corner, good for a two-run double that likely would have scored Mark Vientos to clear the bases and break the record had the ball not hit off the wall along the foul line, preventing it from rolling all the way to the outfield wall.
Still, it was a huge game for Nimmo, who hit two home runs including a grand slam to raise his OPS by 104 points in a single game. The previously struggling Nimmo entered Monday’s series finale with a lowly .575 OPS, and he went to bed Monday night with a .679 OPS.
Nimmo’s big day highlighted a Mets outburst that resulted in 19 runs, just one day after perhaps their worst loss of the season, when they blew a 7-1 lead and lost in walk-off fashion for the second time in the series.
All nine of Nimmo’s RBI came between the sixth and eighth innings, which hadn’t happened in MLB history since Sammy Sosa did so in 2002, per SNY.