In removing Carlos Mendoza and inserting Andy Green, the Mets hoped to breathe some life — any life — into a team that was perishing.

For much of Saturday, Citi Field felt funereal. But a spark — and a few hits and runs — demonstrated a pulse that had not been evident earlier.

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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 in Queens, 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 interim 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.

“We know we got a mountain to climb,” said Christian Scott (4 ¹/₃ innings, two runs, six strikeouts). “But we can only climb the mountain one step at a time.”

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 lineup’s strikeouts — before they rattled off all six of their runs in the sixth and seventh innings. During their seven-game losing streak, 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 glove at first base, tying the game and providing hope for just about the first time in a week.

After a pair of walks from Jared Young and Mark Vientos, it was Ewing grounding a two-run single through the middle that allowed an exhale. The Mets would add to the lead an inning later, when Soto came through with his own RBI triple and Bichette followed with a sacrifice fly.

Lindor and Soto contributed in just the 11th game they have played together this season — “I think that’s what everybody was hoping to see repetitively all summer long,” Green said — reminding of their potential following injuries that debilitated the Mets lineup.

That injury misfortune — and not David Stearns’ trades and signings that have been largely unfortunate — is where Lindor pointed to explain the Mets’ predicament.

“I felt like Stearns did a good job putting the team together. We just haven’t been together. We just haven’t played together,” Lindor said after his 27th game and Soto’s 64th. “And now that we’re slowly getting healthy, little by little, hopefully this next however many games we can play together and make something special out of it.”

The Mets survived, for the day, because their offense awoke, Scott was solid in allowing just a two-run homer to Harper and their bullpen was shutdown.

After an abbreviated, 82-pitch outing from Scott in his first start off the injured list, Green turned to four relievers (A.J. Minter, Huascar Brazobán, Luke Weaver and Devin Williams) to cover 4 ²/₃ scoreless innings in which they walked one and let up two hits — one of which belonged to Harper, who was thrown out trying to stretch a bloop single into a double.

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Minter was particularly impressive in 1 ²/₃ innings, his longest outing since Oct. 2, 2021. The 32-year-old lefty entered with a runner on in the fifth, retired Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber, then returned and got through a Harper-Brandon Marsh-Bryson Stott sixth.

“What Minter did was pretty special today,” Green said of a pitcher who has not allowed an earned run since April 4, 2025.

Speaking of streaks, Weaver took down the eighth to push his run to 23 scoreless innings.

“I think a lot of guys did a lot of really good things today,” Green said.