Mets mash Phillies with seven homers

PHILADELPHIA – Jose Reyes saw the ball shoot toward left field and thought for sure he had a double as he put his head down and sprinted around first base. By the time Reyes passed second base, he slowed down to a trot.

Welcome to Philadelphia’s homer-friendly park.

“I didn’t know what was going to happen with the ball,” Reyes said. “Then I saw home run.”

Turned out few Mets had to run hard, and a brief losing streak was going, going, gone in record fashion.

David Wright hit a grand slam, Reyes and Victor Diaz each homered twice and the New York Mets hit a team-record seven homers Tuesday night in a 16-4 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Mike Piazza and Doug Mientkiewicz also homered, and Wright and Diaz each went 2 for 4 with four RBIs for the Mets, who stopped a two-game skid. The seven homers were five shy of New York’s season total coming in.

“We got some balls up in the air and drove it pretty good,” Mets manager Willie Randolph said.

Reyes got the rout going early when he hit the fourth pitch of the game to left off Phillies starter Vicente Padilla (0-1). It was the first leadoff homer of Reyes’ career and just the beginning of the home runs for the Mets.

Padilla, a former All-Star who hadn’t pitched this season because of right triceps tendinitis, looked like he was throwing batting practice against the Mets.

Diaz hit a two-run shot in the second before the Mets bats really came alive in the third.

Padilla retired the first two batters before giving up a 471-foot shot to Piazza that just missed landing in Ashburn Alley, the outfield entertainment area. Cliff Floyd followed with a broken-bat single, and Mientkiewicz hit a two-run shot.

Wright singled and Diaz followed with a two-run homer for the first multihomer game of his career and an 8-2 lead.

“They say the ball flies, but you’ve got to hit it though,” Diaz said.

Padilla was gone after three innings, allowing eight runs and eight hits. He had been 9-1 with a 2.24 ERA against the Mets.

Gavin Floyd, bumped to the bullpen after two starts to make room for Padilla, wasn’t any better. He gave up a solo homer to Reyes for team-record tying homer No. 6 and Wright’s first career grand slam into the first row in left in the sixth.

New York’s Victor Zambrano (1-1) gave up homers to Chase Utley and David Bell, and the teams tied the record of nine homers at Citizens Bank Park.