In a landslide offensive performance, the resurgent Mets beat the Pirates 13-2 on Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh to pick up their ninth win in their last t10 games. They now hold a 55-56 record with a chance to get back to .500 tomorrow for the first time since May 28.

Offense: 

The Mets managed 16 hits against the Pirates on Sunday. The most hits the club has had in a game is 17, which they’ve accomplished twice this season, and most recently in their 11-4 victory in San Francisco on July 20.

New York crushed Pirates’ starter Joe Musgrove in a flash and had the right-hander in trouble through all of his 3.1 innings pitched, scoring eight runs on 10 hits.

In the first inning Michael Conforto broke open the scoring early with a homer to center field on the first pitch of his at-bat. It was his 22nd of the season. After a Robinson Cano double, JD Davis followed with a second first-inning bomb that traveled an impressive 449 feet to pick up a 3-0 lead.

Jeff McNeil led off the third with a double and advanced to third base on a wild pitch from Musgrove. Todd Frazier followed with an RBI single, and Cano laced his second double of the day to drive in the second run of the inning. That brought Davis to the plate, who ripped an RBI single to make it 6-0 Mets.

McNeil was hit by a pitch and Conforto doubled to put runners in scoring position to start off the fourth. Frazier singled to score the pair of runners and the 8-0 outing ended Musgrove’s day on the mound.

He was lifted for right-hander Yefry Ramirez to face Cano and Davis, who got out of the frame clean. In what looked like his third double of the day, Cano stopped halfway between first and second base gripping his left hamstring. The second baseman was tagged out and limped to the dugout with an apparent injury- just as he was starting to heat up. With Cano’s RBI double in the third he has had four straight multi-hit games.

Ramirez pitched a 1-2-3 fifth inning but let up three runs in the sixth. Syndergaard led off the frame with a single. McNeil walked, and with two outs, center fielder Juan Lagares doubled to left field to drive in the pitcher making it 9-0. With McNeil at third, Davis walked, and Rosario reached on a fielding error by third baseman Colin Moran that allowed McNeil and Lagares to score. The Amazin’ hitting showed no signs of slowing down as they made it 11-0 through six.

Syndergaard got his second hit of the day, and McNeil homered in the top of the seventh for the two final runs of the game.

Cano and Frazier both had three hit days and McNeil went 4-4 with a walk and a home run. Conforto and Davis also homered in the explosive offensive outing.

Pitching:

Noah Syndergaard tossed a gem in his first start since the trade deadline. The right-hander dominated the Pirates through seven innings allowing only one run on three hits and walking one. He also struck out three batters and lowered his season ERA to 3.96.

The Pirates broke the shutout in the seventh when first baseman Jose Osuna doubled on a fly ball to right field, and Colin Moran singled to drive in the run.

They would be held scoreless, with a clean seventh inning pitched by Donnie Hart in relief of Thor, until the bottom of the ninth when Osuna homered to center field off of Jeurys Familia.

In a low-leverage situation, Familia pitched the final two frames of the game, striking out two and limiting the damage to just the one run scored by Osuna in the ninth. His ERA is now a 7.07 on the season.

Up Next:

The Mets will return to Queens on Monday to play a double-header with the Marlins, kicking off a four-game series. Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom (6-7, 2.78 ERA) will take the mound in the first game to face off against Sandy Alcantra (4-10, 5.54 ERA). Walker Lockett (1-1, 7.82 ERA) is slated to start for New York in the night-cap. Miami’s starter has not yet been announced.

The first game starts at 4:10 p.m. ET and can be seen on SNY and MLB Network. The second will follow after a short break on SNY.