Juan Soto is in the midst of a seven-game stretch in which he’s gone 9-for-26 with six extra-base hits and six walks in his last 33 plate appearances.

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Brandon Nimmo hit two home runs – a three-run shot in the sixth and grand slam in the seventh – and followed with a two-run double in the eighth, tying a Mets record with nine RBIs in the 19-5 defeat of Washington at Nationals Park.

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Scoring runs was supposed to be — and maybe still will be — one of the Mets’ strengths this season. So far, though, not so much. Pete Alonso is off to a tremendous start at the plate and ...

For the A’s players, the only option is acceptance of the new surroundings. “The situation that we have right now is not the best,” Luis Severino said before the Mets’ 3-1 loss to the A’s.