The Mets hit back at Austin Adams.
But more importantly, the Mets just hit.
Carlos Mendoza’s group turned 11 hits and two home runs into nine runs — four more than they had scored total during their four-game losing streak — to snap that skid in a 9-1 blowout of the A’s in front of 28,288 at Citi Field on Wednesday.
The Mets had not seen a win — or even a lead — since Thursday in Colorado, and were in danger of matching their longest slide of the season.
Instead, a team that had been outscored 31-5 over the four games found life and revenge, primarily through Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor’s bats.
Angry at Adams, a journeyman A’s reliever who escaped danger Tuesday and turned the Mets’ arm-raising, “OMG” gesture against them, the Mets scored three runs in the first four innings, which included a telling Lindor glance in Adams’ direction, and pulled away with a six-run seventh.
The Mets took the lead in the second, when Mark Vientos rifled what was ruled as an RBI double under the glove of third baseman Darell Hernaiz.
The Mets took a jab at Adams in the third, when Lindor turned on a Joey Estes fastball and catapulted his 100th home run as a Met to right.
When approaching second base, he stole a glance toward the visiting bullpen and raised and shook both arms in the air, using the dance move to deliver a message.
The Mets took control in the fourth, when Alonso pummeled an Estes sweeper deep into the left-field seats for his 26th dinger of the year.
And the Mets took over in the seventh.
Alonso, who had gone 1-for-16 with nine strikeouts during the four-game skid, added his fourth hit of the night (in four at-bats) with a two-run double.
Overall the Mets sent 10 hitters to the plate in the frame, which began with consecutive walks to Vientos, Ben Gamel and Francisco Alvarez before Lindor (2-for-5 with the homer and two RBIs) smacked an RBI single.
Gamel scored on a wild pitch, Alvarez on a sacrifice fly from Brandon Nimmo and Lindor on a double from J.D. Martinez in the kind of inning the Mets (62-58) had waited nearly a week for.
If there were any disappointment Wednesday, it came from Adams, a sudden enemy of Queens, remaining in the bullpen all game.
David Peterson — who had been on the mound the last time the Mets won a game and then watched Jose Quintana, Sean Manaea, Luis Severino and Paul Blackburn get destroyed to the tune of 19 runs in 18 ²/₃ innings — was excellent over 6 ¹/₃ innings in which he allowed just one unearned run and sliced his ERA to 3.04.
Huascar Brazoban, Danny Young and Adam Ottavino finished off a win that brought the Mets 1 ½ games back of the Braves, who were set to play late Wednesday, in the wild-card race.