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On a day where things could have gone south quickly for the New York Mets after Max Scherzer was ejected, the team was able to pick up a 5-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday. The positive momentum from this West Coast trip continued thanks in part to Brandon Nimmo, who had a historic afternoon at the plate.

Nimmo went 5-for-5 with a pair of runs scored and a two-run home run in the top of the fifth against former Met Noah Syndergaard that put the team up 2-1. With the five-hit performance, it is the center fielder’s second of his career (2018) and he is the fourth different Met to get five hits in a game twice per our own Mathew Brownstein.

Nimmo’s day began in the first when he battled back from a 0-2 count to take a changeup below the zone and single into right field. That success against Syndergaard continued in the third when he put down a bunt in order to reach base. However, both times he was on, Starling Marte would hit into a double play.

In the fifth, Nimmo helped his own cause and it once again came on a changeup. Syndergaard left a 1-1 changeup just above the lower part of the zone and he crushed it to right center for a 431-foot home run.

Once Syndergaard left the game, Nimmo’s success continued. With two outs in the seventh, the center fielder once again battled back from a 0-2 count and got an infield single. Then, in the ninth, he took a 2-2 fastball from Shelby Miller and singled to left.

During this west coast trip, Nimmo has shaken off the slow start to his season. In the last six games, he is 13-for-26 with three doubles, three walks, a home run, and five RBIs. Yes, that is a very small sample size, but he has the most hits over the last seven days than any player in baseball. In addition, he has the second-best on-base percentage (.567), he’s tied for fifth in OPS (1.308), and has the ninth-best slugging percentage (.731). He’s also tied for first in the National League with his 1.3 fWAR.

With the injuries to the Mets pitching staff, the offense is going to be relied upon heavily over the next few weeks. If Nimmo can keep getting on-base or even manufacture some of his own offense, it can help the Mets win games with their offense. According to his manager, he’s playing as well as Showalter has ever seen him play and that’s saying something:

It may be early in the season, but it is safe to say when the Mets are winning ball games, it’s because of Nimmo in some way, shape, or form either with his bat or his glove out in center field.

According to Baseball Reference, he has a slash line of .368/.510/,500 with eight RBIs in Mets victories. In losses, the slash line is .150/.320/.150 and he only has three hits in 20 at-bats.

As the Mets are on the verge of a winning road trip on the west coast, their catalyst at the top of the lineup continues to set the tempo for the big power bats behind him in Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso.