Brandon Nimmo hadn’t been having the best start to the year entering play on Monday. He’d been making decent contact and hitting balls hard, but they weren’t dropping for hits. Manager Carlos Mendoza discussed as much pregame,

In the eighth inning, Nimmo added two more RBIs to his total, doubling in two runs to extend the Mets’ lead to 12-0. This brought his RBI total to nine on the day, tying the franchise record set by Carlos Delgado against the Yankees on June 27, 2008.

Brandon Nimmo had four hits, including a grand slam and a three-run homer, and drove in a career-high nine runs as the visiting New York Mets routed the Washington Nationals 19-5 on Monday to earn a four-game series split.