Things have not been going great recently for Michael Conforto, who has had a quietly good season while being overshadowed by the stardom of Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil.

Conforto entered Tuesday’s game just 6-for-his-last-49, with a .453 OPS in that span (14 games). Despite the ups and downs of his 2019 campaign, he still entered the game with a solid 119 wRC+ and 1.6 fWAR.

The outfielder finally broke out of that slump though, lining four singles in the Mets’ narrow 3-2 victory over the Twins. As a team, the Mets collected only three other hits. His biggest hit was in the fifth inning, when he singled the other way to bring home Amed Rosario and give the Mets a 3-2 lead that they would eventually hold on to by the skin of their teeth.

Conforto’s 4-for-4 evening raised his average from .241 to .251, and his wRC+ from 119 to 123. While he has been very good, the Mets would love to see some more consistency out of him going forward, so Tuesday’s game was definitely a step in the right direction as to reaching the star-caliber level that we all know he is capable of.

Additionally, with a runner on first and two outs in the bottom of the third, Nelson Cruz hit a deep fly ball to left-center that Conforto nicely tracked down at the wall. He may be relatively inexperienced in center, but he showed some comfort there as he may have saved what would have been the tie-breaking run at the time with the Mets up 2-1.

Conforto attributed his nice catch to “being aware of how far you are from the wall” and “being able to time your jump a little bit.” It was only his 13th start in center field this year, and while the metrics rate him as below average, he has definitely done a lot of work to improve in that regard.

“Earlier this year I had a couple plays where I’d get too close to the wall and then I’d jump,” Conforto added, “and so I think that play’s a product of us working on it, so hopefully I can do more of that.”

He said his favorite part of the night “has got to be the go-ahead hit. […] I feel like maybe a couple weeks ago I don’t stay on that ball long enough to poke it the other way, and obviously the fact that it gave us the lead is huge as well.”

This was Conforto’s first multi-hit game since a three-hit game on June 24 against the Phillies. Hopefully, this starts a new trend of more hits from the 26-year-old outfielder, who has drawn lots of walks (10th in the NL in walks, 13.9% walk rate) and hit for plenty of power (.227 ISO, 17 home runs), but has been inconsistently collecting base hits.

If he can raise his average a little bit going forward, this could be the start of a huge second half for Michael Conforto.