The New York Mets (76-70) defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks (75-72) by a score of 11-1 Thursday afternoon at Citi Field, thus completing a four-game sweep of their Wild Card rivals. The Mets obliterated many baseballs today, but none more than Juan Lagares who had a monster day at the plate. He hit two home runs including a third-inning Grand Slam.

Pitching

Marcus Stroman recorded his best start as a New York Met, taking a shutout into the 7th inning. With one out, Alex Avila and Jarrod Dyson walked before pinch-hitter Ildemaro Vargas turned a cement-mixer slider into an RBI double, scoring the D-Backs’ first run of the game and leaving runners on second and third with one out.

Daniel Zamora entered in relief of Stroman and threw nine sliders to Abraham Almonte whose great at-bat earned him a walk to load the bases. That brought lefty Josh Rojas to the plate who struck out for the second out of the inning. That ended Zamora’s duties as with Eduardo Escobar coming to the plate, Callaway opted to bring in a righty.

That right-handed pitcher was Chris Mazza who, with the bases loaded, induced an inning-ending groundout. That closed the book on Stroman who went 6 1/3 innings, allowing one run on four hits and four walks, striking out six.

Mazza, throwing strikes, stayed in for the eighth inning and set the Diamondbacks down one-two-three. He stayed in for the ninth and after getting a groundout, hit Jarrod Dyson with a pitch bringing Ildemaro Vargas to the plate. Vargas lined out to Conforto in right field before Abraham Almonte grounded out to end the ballgame.

Offense

Todd Frazier started the scoring in the second inning as he reached at a bell below the zone and tucked it into the left field stands for a solo home run.

The third inning was a lot of fun as the Mets scored five runs, though none of them were earned. Amed Rosario struck out before Pete Alonso reached on a rare throwing error by Nick Ahmed. Robinson Cano then grounded out for the second out of the inning, bringing J.D. Davis to the plate. He lined a single to left field to score Alonso before advancing to third on a Michael Conforto single. Todd Frazier walked to load the bases and bring Juan Lagares to the plate.

Juan Lagares proceeded to hit the first Grand Slam of his career to give the Mets a 6-0 lead and give us the best Gary Cohen voice crack:

The Mets got things going again in the fifth inning when Robinson Cano led off with a solo shot to right. A fly out, walk, and a strikeout brought Juan Lagares to the plate with two outs and a runner on. A few moments after Gary Cohen said Lagares has never had a two-homer game, he changed that by driving an opposite-field wall-scraper over the right field fence. On the very next pitch, Tomas Nido cranked a solo shot to left to give the Mets a 10-0 lead.

At that point, the Mets had hit five home runs in two consecutive games which they had never done before. Then, when Michael Conforto cranked the 30th home run of the season to give the Mets an 11-1 lead, they set a new record for home runs at home with six.

Conforto went 2-for-3 with a walk and three runs scored while Laagres was 2-for-4 with six RBI. J.D. Davis also went 2-for-3 with an RBI and run scored.

On Deck

The Mets will welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers to Citi Field on Friday night for a three-game set. Noah Syndergaard (10-7, 4.06 ERA) will face off against Clayton Kershaw (13-5, 3.06 ERA) at 7:10 PM ET.