Luis Torrens, Mets’ offense put on a show in rout of Phillies

These are mostly fun times for the Mets lineup.

Yes, there have been occasional games in the last 2 ½ weeks in which the unit has stalled and frustration ensued.

But the team’s success at the plate is starting to outweigh such lapses.

Monday night, with the NL East’s top dog in the house, the bottom of the batting order took charge and led a 13-3 smackdown of the Phillies at Citi Field.

It was a third victory in four games for the Mets, who still trail the Phillies by six games.

The Reds, who began the night behind the Mets by 1 ½ games for the NL’s third and final wild card, played a later game against the Dodgers.

After scoring 21 runs combined in their two victories in Atlanta over the weekend, the Mets again busted out. This time they scored 13 unanswered runs.

Luis Torrens, the No. 9 hitter in the order, delivered the dagger with a three-run homer in the seventh after earlier contributing an RBI double.

He also drove in another run later with a single to finish with a career-high five RBIs.

Jeff McNeil, batting eighth, was 2-for-4 with three RBIs.

And from the No. 7 hole, light-hitting Tyrone Taylor, was 3-for-4 with an RBI.

All told that was an 8-for-13 night with nine RBIs for the bottom three hitters in the order.

Further up in the lineup, Mark Vientos continued his sizzling play with two doubles and two RBIs, including the go-ahead hit in the fifth inning after the Mets had fallen into a 3-0 hole early.

Kodai Senga, pitching on normal rest for the fourth time in his career — the Mets have regularly allowed him to pitch every sixth or seventh day instead of on the fifth — slogged through four innings.

Overall, he surrendered three earned runs on six hits with three walks and four strikeouts over 93 pitches. He departed in the fifth after drilling J.T. Realmuto to start the inning.

On regular rest during his career he’s now pitched to 5.09 ERA.

In all other instances Senga has pitched to a 2.74 ERA.

Senga surrendered a triple to Trea Turner leading off the game and watched the Phillies go ahead 1-0 on Kyle Schwarber’s RBI ground out.

Alec Bohm stroked a two-run single in the third that increased the Mets’ deficit to 3-0.

Schwarber walked to begin the rally and Bryce Harper singled, advancing to second as Juan Soto unsuccessfully attempted to throw out the lead runner at third.

After Bohm delivered Brandon Marsch doubled before Senga escaped the second-and-third jam by retiring Max Kepler.

The Mets tied it against Cristopher Sánchez with three runs in the fourth.

Vientos, who entered with five homers in seven games, slashed an RBI double before Brandon Nimmo’s single pulled the Mets to within a run.

Taylor walked to extend the inning before McNeil’s RBI single tied it 3-3.

Vientos slashed a go-ahead RBI double in the fifth after the Phillies failed to execute a pickoff play.

Soto, in an attempted steal, was safe at second on the play after Bryson Stott dropped the throw while attempting a swipe tag.

Sanchez had stepped off and thrown to first base, where Harper received the throw before firing to second.

After Taylor stroked a leadoff double in the sixth, Torrens doubled to right-center, giving the Mets a 5-3 lead. Sanchez was removed at that point.

David Robertson surrendered an RBI single to Starling Marte after walking Soto with two outs.

With Torrens’ three-run blast in the seventh, the rout was on for the Mets, who finished with 14 hits.