UNDATED (AP) — The New York Mets have the largest division lead in the majors, but they couldn’t string together four straight wins until Memorial Day.
Starling Marte and Nick Plummer each homered and finished with four RBIs as the Mets followed their weekend sweep of the Phillies by clobbering the Nationals, 13-5. Plummer was productive one night after hitting a game-tying homer in the ninth inning for his first major league hit.
Francisco Lindor had run-scoring singles in his first two at-bats, giving him RBIs in eight straight games.
Pete Alonso homered leading off the eighth for the Mets’ season-high 13th run, giving him 30 RBIs this month.
The outcome gives the Mets a 33-17 record and a 9 1/2-game lead over the second-place Braves in the NL East.
In other Memorial Day MLB action:
— The Braves were 6-2 losers to the Diamondbacks as Pavin Smith belted a three-run homer and Ketel Marte delivered a two-run homer. Zac Gallen is 4-0 after allowing two runs and seven hits with six strikeouts over 5 2/3s. Austin Riley hit a solo homer for Atlanta.
— The Pirates wasted a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning before scoring twice in the ninth to beat the Dodgers for the third time in four meetings this season, 6-5. Michael Perez singled in the tying run and pinch-runner Michael Chavis scored the go-ahead run on Freddie Freeman’s error. Tucupita Marcano slammed his first major league homer, a three-run blast that put Pittsburgh ahead, 3-0 in the second inning.
— Luis Urias slammed a three-run homer in the seventh inning to break a 4-4 deadlock in the Brewers’ 7-6 win over the Cubs in Game 1 of a split doubleheader. Milwaukee put two runners on base off Daniel Norris with two out before Urias parked a shot into the basket in left field. The Cubs led 4-2 in the sixth before Tyrone Taylor’s two-run homer.
— Tyrone Taylor also went deep in the nightcap to help Milwaukee secure a 3-1 victory and a twinbill sweep of the Cubs. Aaron Ashby fanned a career-high 12 while limiting Chicago to a run and five hits over six innings. Victor Caratini hit a tiebreaking home run in the fifth inning against his former team, and the Brewers won their third in a row while getting just three hits in the nightcap.
— St. Louis knocked off the Padres, 6-3 as Nolan Gorman smacked a go-ahead, two-run homer to help Andre Pallante get his first win in 17 big league appearances. Pallante allowed one run and five hits over 3 1/3 innings of relief, recording a career-high five strikeouts and no walks. Paul Goldschmidt ran his hitting streak to 21 games by belting his fifth homer in seven games.
— The Giants pulled out a 5-4 win over the Phillies on Curt Casali’s two-run homer in the 10th inning. Wilmer Flores and Evan Longoria also homered for the Giants, and Kyle Schwarber, Nick Castellanos and Rhys Hoskins went deep for the Phillies. Philadelphia has dropped 11 of 15 to fall seven games under .500 for the first time since the end of the 2017 season.
— Pinch-hitter Yonathan Daza laced a three-run double and had four RBIs as the Rockies thumped the Marlins, 7-1. Garrett Hampson had a two-run triple and Brendan Rodgers singled in the bottom of the eighth inning to extend his career-long hitting streak to 17 games. Colorado starter Ryan Feltner got his first big-league win, going seven innings and allowing four hits.
— Yordan Álvarez crushed a pair of tape-measure home runs and Framber Valdes was masterful in the Astros’ 5-1 win at Oakland. Álvarez belted a 469-foot drive and a 444-foot blast to give him 14 home runs this season. Valdes pitched a two-hitter in the majors’ seventh nine-inning complete game this season.
— Eli White hit a homer and took one away as the Rangers knocked off the Rays, 9-5. The center fielder made a spectacular leaping catch to take away a three-run blast from Ji-Man Choi in the first inning and later hit a long home run. Jonah Heim also homered and Kole Calhoun drove in three runs for Texas.
— Tyler Wells threw two-hit ball over six innings of the Orioles’ 10-0 rout of the Red Sox. Ryan Mountcastle and Ramón Urías hit early homers and Anthony Santander added a three-run blast in the ninth to give Baltimore its third win in the five-game series. Rich Hill had gone 79 consecutive starts without allowing more than four runs before the Birds tagged him for six earned runs in four-plus innings.
— Andrés Giménez hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning off rookie Collin Snider, sending the Guardians to a 7-3 win over the Royals. José Ramírez hit his 13th homer and drove in three more runs for Cleveland, raising his major league-leading total to 51 RBIs. Emmanuel Rivera homered for the Royals, who rallied in the eighth before falling to an AL-worst 16-31.
— Jonathan Schoop joined exclusive company while finishing a homer shy of the cycle in the Tigers’ 7-5 downing of the Twins. Schoop joined Andruw Jones and Andrelton Simmons as the only players from Curaçao with 1,000 major league hits. Willy Castro had a pair of RBI singles for Detroit, which scored more than four runs for the first time since May 15.
