The Mets just keep on rolling.
They completed a four-game sweep of the Cardinals with a 7-4 victory at Citi Field on Sunday, giving them nine wins in their first 10 games in Queens this season.
And thanks in part to their dominating performance over St. Louis, they’ll be in first place in the NL East with a two-game lead when the Phillies arrive to open a series on Monday.
“Last year was not like this,’’ Francisco Lindor said of the feel at Citi Field this April. “It feels like a real home-field advantage.”
And instead of hovering around .500, like they were at this time a year ago, the Mets have gotten off to a fantastic start — and it’s come from all parts of the roster.
On Sunday, they got another encouraging start from Clay Holmes and, after a rare slipup from the bullpen cost them the lead in the seventh, the lineup delivered again.
Brandon Nimmo, who earlier in the game robbed a potential two-run homer in left, hit a go-ahead single in the bottom of the seventh before the Mets added three more runs in the eighth.
“When the top four guys are on it, it’s gonna be fun,’’ Lindor said. “This lineup has depth. It doesn’t have to rely on one or two guys.”
The rally in the eighth was capped by a Juan Soto two-run double to left-center, one of several signs over the past few days that Soto and the Mets believe he’s ready to break out after a slow start to his Queens tenure.
Nimmo has also slumped for most of the first few weeks of the season, but contributed on both sides in this one, and Lindor also continued to heat up at the plate, with a leadoff homer, two singles and a pair of runs scored.
The Mets also got six strong innings from Holmes, in his strongest outing since recasting himself as a starter this season.
They had a 3-0 lead after five and were up by two runs in the seventh when lefty Danny Young came in to start the inning after Holmes allowed just one run over six innings — his longest start of the year.
With two on and one out, Young got Lars Nootbaar looking and was replaced by José Buttó, but Buttó allowed a two-run double to Thomas Saggese to tie the game at 3-3.
In the bottom of the inning, Lindor reached on a dribbler with one out, moved to second on a walk by Soto and scored on a single up the middle by Nimmo to give the Mets the lead for good.
“It’s no secret I’ve been struggling a little bit, but that’s baseball,’’ Nimmo said. “It’s not the first time or the last time I’ve struggled and you try to find ways to help.”
Nimmo delivered with his glove earlier in the game, as well.
In the top of the sixth, St. Louis got a double by Brendan Donovan and he moved to third with one out on a wild pitch. That allowed Donovan to score on an Alec Burleson groundout to second to cut the Mets’ lead to 3-1.
Jordan Walker followed with a shot to deep left, but Nimmo made a leaping grab at the fence to rob Walker of a two-run homer that would have tied the game.
The Mets ended up taking the lead in the seventh and then scored another run in the eighth thanks to a hustle double by Luisangel Acuña to start the inning and a one-out RBI double by Tyrone Taylor.
Soto then helped put the game out of reach with a booming double to left-center.
They’ll face another test when Philadelphia arrives Monday in the first meeting between the division rivals since the Mets ended the Phillies’ season in the NLDS last October.
“We expect it to be high energy,’’ Nimmo said. “They obviously don’t like the way things ended and I’m sure they’d like to make a statement right away. For us, it’s a big series. It’s gonna be fun. It is early, but every game counts.”
