Coming off a four-game series sweep of the Nationals — leaving them one game below .500 — the New York Mets welcomed the Detroit Tigers into town for a three-game, Memorial Day Weekend series at Citi Field.

After falling behind 4-0 early on, the Mets came back — and continued to come back as the Tigers negated three Mets’ leads through the night — with five home runs, three of which were of the go-ahead variety.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough as the Tigers snapped the Mets’ four-game winning streak (box score) by the score of 9-8.

Pitching

Noah Syndergaard came into Friday with a 4.50 ERA, 3.54 FIP, 1.19 WHIP, 63 strikeouts and 14 walks over 10 starts (64 innings) this season and a 2.40 ERA in May (four starts).

Syndergaard got into trouble early, walking Niko Goodrum to start his night and allowing back-to-back singles to Christin Stewart and Nicholas Castellanos, putting the Tigers ahead, 1-0.

Miguel Cabrera followed with a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Stewart and staking Detroit to a 2-0 lead, but Syndergaard recovered to strike out Ronny Rodriguez and John Hicks to leave Castellanos stranded.

Josh Harrison led off the top of the second with a single to left field and JaCoby Jones parked a 108.7 mph rocket a few rows into the stands in left-center in the next at-bat to put the Tigers ahead 4-0.

Detroit’s pitcher, Gregory Soto, followed with his first major-league hit in his first MLB plate appearance. After two fly-ball outs, Castellanos reached on Todd Frazier‘s throwing error, Cabrera singled to load the bases, but Syndergaard struck out Rodriguez to limit the damage.

At 51 pitches through two innings of work, Syndergaard spun a much-needed ten-pitch third and proceeded to allow his counterpart to single again leading off the fourth, giving Soto two base hits in his first two major-league at-bats.

Syndergaard struck out Goodrum and Castellanos (punchouts six and seven on the night) to work around the baserunner, but allowed a game-tying, solo home run to Cabrera in the fifth.

Noah allowed a one-out single to Dawel Lugo and a double in the next at-bat to Goodrum in the top of the sixth, ending his night after 5.1 innings, giving up six earned runs on ten hits with nine strikeouts and one base-on-balls (104 pitches; 68 strikes).

Tyler Bashlor came on to relieve Syndergaard and allowed the tying run to score on a Stewart sacrifice fly but set down Castellanos to stop the bleeding, lowering the young righty’s ERA to 0.93 in the process.

The Mets gave another lead back in the seventh when right-hander Drew Gagnon issued a leadoff walk to Cabrera, a one-out double to catcher John Hicks, and a two-out, two-RBI double to Jones to give the Tigers an 8-7 lead, then gave up a single to Brandon Dixon, making it a 9-7 game.

Jeurys Familia allowed two one-out baserunners in the eighth but worked out of the jam to keep the Mets within two.

Left-hander Hector Santiago made his Mets debut in the ninth, working a perfect frame with three flyball outs.

Offense

Amed Rosario put the Mets on the board with a two-out, 93.3 mph, 28-degree solo homer to left field in the bottom of the third, cutting Detroit’s lead to 4-1.

Pete Alonso led off the fourth with a 105.1 mph double to left field and Wilson Ramos drove him home with an opposite-field single in the tenth pitch of his at-bat to make it a 4-2 game in favor of the Tigers.

Rajai Davis added a one-out single later in the frame and Adeiny Hechavarria blasted a 101.6 mph three-run homer to put the Mets ahead, 5-4. Rosario doubled with two outs but nothing came of it.

Pete Alonso hit his 17th home run of the season — a towering shot off the left-field foul pole — to put the Mets ahead 6-5 in the bottom of the fifth.

Then, in his first Mets at-bat, Aaron Altherr took Tigers right-hander Buck Farmer deep to put the Mets ahead 7-6 in the sixth with a 111.9 mph, 420-foot blast.

Wilson Ramos crushed a leadoff home run — his third dinger of 2019 —  in the eighth to cut Detroit’s lead to 9-8.

Hechavarria shot a two-out double down the left-field line but Dominic Smith (.353/.542/.647 in 24 plate appearances as a PH this season), struck out to leave him stranded.

The Mets went down in order in the ninth, losing their first game in their last five and falling to 24-26 on the season.

On Deck

The Mets welcome back Jason Vargas (1-2, 5.92 ERA) from an IL stint (hamstring) to face left-hander Ryan Carpenter (0-2, 13.00 ERA) and the Tigers in the second game of the series.

The game will be televised on WPIX and broadcast on WCBS 880 AM.