Juan Soto homers twice as Mets’ offense busts out in much-needed win over Braves

A lineup that’s been desperate for production — especially from the bottom of the order — finally got it Wednesday, as the Mets scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth of a 7-3 win over Atlanta.

The victory was just the Mets’ second in their last 12 games, as they’ve fallen out of first place in the NL East and questions have been raised about just about every aspect of their roster.

But Juan Soto homered twice, Clay Holmes rebounded from perhaps his worst outing of the season last week in Atlanta to stifle the Braves on Wednesday and the offense took advantage of the youngest player in the majors, Atlanta right-hander Didier Fuentes, a 20-year-old making his second MLB start.

They hit the halfway point at 47-34 and knocked the Braves to five games under .500.

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About the only thing that went wrong was right-hander Jonathan Pintaro couldn’t finish the ninth and Edwin Díaz was forced to close it out.

The sizzling Soto got the Mets’ five-run fourth going with a 413-foot leadoff homer to center to give them a one-run lead.

He added a second homer to start the eighth, his team-high 19th of the season.

After Soto tied the game in the fourth, Alonso was hit by a pitch and went to third on Jeff McNeil’s double to left.

Starling Marte’s sacrifice fly to deep center made it 3-1 and sent McNeil to third.

With the infield in, Brett Baty singled to right, giving the Mets a 4-1 lead.

Ronny Mauricio, who got the Mets on the board in the third inning with a leadoff homer, delivered a base hit, as did Hayden Senger.

A Francisco Lindor sacrifice fly added another run, as did Brandon Nimmo’s base hit to center before Soto struck out to end the inning.

It was a welcome eruption for a team that has struggled to score for most of the 11-game free-fall that cost them the division lead as every hitter in the lineup had a hit or an RBI.