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- Updated: April 19, 2016
10:17 PM ET
PHILADELPHIA — The New York Mets are on a long-ball binge.
Neil Walker homered twice and Michael Conforto, Yoenis Cespedes, Lucas Duda and Curtis Granderson also went deep as the New York Mets moved over .500 with an 11-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Park.
Logan Verrett contributed six scoreless innings for the second straight start while filling in for Jacob deGrom.
The Mets have produced 17 homers and scored 33 runs in their past five games, which coincides with Conforto rising from sixth to third in the lineup. They have produced four or more homers in consecutive games for the first time since Sept. 28-29, 2005. The Mets have reached six homers in a game three times in the past 15 years. All have come in Philly.
Tuesday’s six-homer barrage ties for third most in a game in franchise history. The team record came in an eight-homer outburst in Philadelphia on Aug. 24 of last season.
Conforto and Cespedes each homered on 0-2 curveballs from Vince Velasquez, who had entered the game having struck out 25 batters in 15 scoreless innings …
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