Spencer Strider tried to throw a high fastball past Bo Bichette in the second inning.

It didn’t work.

He’d tried a slider in the first inning — on an 0-2 count, no less. But Bichette slammed that one into the seats for a solo shot to get the Mets’ scoring started in Friday’s series opener against the rival Braves. It went 383 feet, 102.6 mph off the bat.

Bichette homered in the first inning for the second straight game. Together with Juan Soto‘s blast that made it back-to-back, it was the first time in Mets franchise history that they hit multiple home runs in the first inning in two straight games, per a note from the Apple TV broadcast. On Thursday, it had been Bichette and Jared Young.

So up came Bichette again in the second inning, batting with the bases loaded and two outs. Bichette, who notoriously has struggled against fastballs throughout his underperformance this season, took one the other way towards the right-field corner. It carried just enough — and stayed just far enough inside the foul line — that, after a moment of anticipation, everyone on the field clued in that it was a grand slam. It went 341 feet.

Bichette dealt the deadly blow for Atlanta’s Strider.

And he continued to slowly, but surely, rewrite the story on his 2026 season.

There’s been plenty of talk about Bichette struggling against fastballs. Well, he hit one for a grand slam.

There’s been plenty of talk about Bichette not hitting for power. Well, he hit two in the game and now has eight on the year.

In fact, it wasn’t even his first time hitting two homers in the first two innings for the Mets. On May 19, he did the same against Washington. Bichette is now the first Met to ever homer in the first two innings of a game on multiple occasions.

So, while Bichette may have been a disappointment overall so far this season, his power has come in bunches.

And he’s starting to find a little more consistency. Since May 18 — so right before the first two-homer game — he has an .850 OPS. Things looked pretty bleak regarding Bichette for a little while there. But he’s showing some life, with a strong penchant for going the other way and, more recently, hitting for some power.

After both of Bichette’s home runs, he wore a blue Spider-Man mask on his ran back into the dugout. Soto did the same after his bomb. The look seems to have replaced the construction outfit, for now.

Might as well switch something up, given how the season has gone.

Bichette said after the game that the mask was Carson Benge and MJ Melendez‘s idea.

Naturally, Benge and Melendez both scored on Bichette’s grand slam.

“They thought it would be cool because Spider-Man is from Queens,” Bichette said.

The Mets have stuck with Bichette in the two-hole even when he hasn’t produced. They signed him to be their third baseman and bat near the top of the order. They were patient with him when he wasn’t performing to that level — and now it seems that his Spidey-sense is tingling as he heats up with the stick.