Mets snap losing streak behind big sixth inning as Andy Green picks up first win as interim manager

In removing Carlos Mendoza and inserting Andy Green, the Mets hoped to breathe some life — any life — into a team that was perishing.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.

For much of Saturday’s game, Citi Field felt funereal.But a spark — and a few hits and runs — demonstrated a pulse that had not been evident earlier.It is just that — a pulse, rather than a steady heartbeat — but the Mets discovered a bit of fight, enough offense and finally a victory.A sixth-inning eruption that featured big swings from Francisco Lindor and A.J.

Ewing carried the Mets from two down to two ahead in what became a 6-2 win over the Phillies at Citi Field, where the announced crowd of 37,338 sat through a 70-minute rain delay to see the club snap a seven-game skid and see Green record his first victory as Mets manager.It is far too soon to declare that banishing Mendoza and installing Green will change much around the Mets, who seem destined to sell at the trade deadline, but any trace of vitality would be welcome to a clubhouse and crowd that wants August and September games to matter.To beat significant odds and accomplish as much, the Mets (35-48) would need more games like Saturday’s, in which they looked listless and lifeless for five innings — as did the crowd, which appeared apathetic rather than angry at the offense’s strikeouts — before they rattled off all six of their runs in the sixth and seventh innings.During the seven-game skid, they scored as many as six runs in a game one time.Through five innings against opener Tim Mayza and Alan Rangel, the Mets totaled three base runners.

In the sixth, six straight Mets batters reached base.A Juan Soto single began the rally.Bo Bichette’s knock put runners on the corners.

And Lindor — in his third game back after missing two months while his team spiraled — snuck a triple under Bryce Harper’s diving g...