Mets win consecutive games for first time in weeks as offense busts out in Little League Classic

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— For the first time in three weeks, the Mets have won back-to-back games.All it took was a trip to the Little League World Series, an offensive outburst against Seattle’s George Kirby and a solid start from Clay Holmes.Losers of 14 of 17 heading into the game, the Mets remained a game ahead of Cincinnati for the third and final NL wild-card spot with the 7-3 victory at the Little League Classic at Bowman Field, capped by Mark Vientos’ three-run, opposite-field homer in the fifth.Francisco Lindor had another multihit game with three more hits, and Francisco Alvarez had three hits before he was forced from the game after an apparent right wrist injury in the seventh.That was the lone negative for the Mets.Holmes had completed four innings just once in his previous three starts and was coming off his worst outing of the season.But in his return to the ballpark where he blew another game on his way to losing his closing job with the Yankees last year, the right-hander rebounded.His night got off to a shaky start when Holmes drilled Randy Arozarena with a 92 mph sinker with his first pitch of the game Sunday.He recovered to whiff the majors’ home run leader, Cal Raleigh, then got Julio Rodríguez to hit into an inning-ending double play.Lindor, who had a fifth-straight multihit game, opened the bottom of the inning with a base hit to right but was picked off first.The Mets took the lead with a three-run second with four straight hits to open the inning.It started with singles by Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil before Alvarez followed with an RBI double to left-center that Rodríguez couldn’t corral, scoring Alonso.With the infield drawn in, Brett Baty smoked a single to center to drive in the second run of the inning.A Vientos sacrifice fly made it 3-0 against Kirby, who’d allowed just two earned runs over 1...