NEW YORK -- It was Thursday night thunder at Citi Field. In what could be a postseason matchup in late October, the Mets’ bats erupted for four home runs and pounded the Phillies, 10-6. It marked the first time in Mets history that they scored 10 or more runs in three straight games.

“[That's] sick. Right on,” said first baseman Pete Alonso when told about the accomplishment. “Guys one through nine are doing a great job of staying locked in on their approaches. It’s a whole group effort. We have some good momentum going. Hopefully we can continue tomorrow.”

One thing to keep in mind: the Mets are on this streak of scoring 10 or more runs without the services of Francisco Lindor, who has missed the past four games because of lower back tightness. What does that tell you about New York's performance over the past three days?

“We know we are good,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “We said it. Guys are going to go down and guys will continue to step up. That’s what we are seeing in the past few days, and it feels like it is a different guy every night and, today, a lot of guys.”

With its fourth consecutive victory, New York remains tied for second with the D-backs in the National League Wild Card race and two games ahead of the Braves, who would not make the playoffs if the season ended today.

It was a playoff atmosphere. A crowd of 35,982 was loud starting in the first inning. It helped that Mark Vientos and Alonso hit back-to-back home runs to give New York a 2-0 lead.

“It was great energy tonight, playoff atmosphere,” outfielder Brandon Nimmo said. “I’m very thankful for that. We need more of it as we go down this stretch.”

But the crowd became silent after Trea Turner tied the game in the third inning with a two-run homer off right-hander Luis Severino.

But starting in the bottom of the inning, the Mets began to blow things open off Phillies right-hander Taijuan Walker. With Jose Iglesias on first, Nimmo swung at the first pitch and hit the ball over the right-center-field fence to give New York a 4-2 lead.

After Philadelphia made it a one-run game in the top of the fourth, the Mets chased Walker from the game by scoring five runs in the bottom of the inning. Francisco Alvarez highlighted the scoring with a monster three-run homer over the left-field wall. The exit velocity was clocked at a Statcast-projected 111.7 mph, which is the hardest-hit homer of his career, while the ball traveled 421 feet.

"I felt great. I didn't feel tired at all,” Walker said. “It's frustrating, too, because I really felt like today was the best I've ever felt all year. I thought the stuff ticked up a little bit. Everything was hard. I just didn't execute and get the job done."

The Phillies made it interesting in the seventh by scoring three runs off reliever Danny Young, but New York answered right back against reliever José Alvarado in the bottom of the inning when Alvarez scored all the way from first on a triple by Luisangel Acuña.

“As a team, we are going to be aggressive,” Mendoza said. “There are going to be days where there is a different plan of attack. But today, we needed to get in the zone and be aggressive on pitches that we needed to do damage, and it showed.”

Severino was the beneficiary of those runs as he picked up his 11th victory of the season. He pitched six innings, allowing three runs on five hits and striking out seven batters. Severino has played on some good Yankees teams over the years. The current Mets remind him of the 2017 Bronx Bombers, who took the Astros to a seventh game in the American League Championship Series.

“We ran out there. Nobody was expecting us to win in ‘17,” Severino said. “We have a lot of good guys [on the Mets], so hopefully we will continue to [win] and take us to the playoffs.”