It looks like what Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake deemed a “one-off concern” for Luis Gil last week against the Orioles may not be so simple.

The Yankees’ revelation could not hold off the Mets’ hot bats in a 12-2 beatdown at Citi Field as the Bombers got swept in the two-game Subway Series.

Gil allowed three earned runs on four hits and four walks, committing an error along the way, across 4 ¹/₃ innings before he was replaced by Caleb Ferguson just before the 87-minute storm delay in the bottom of the fifth inning.

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When asked about what his reaction would be if he saw a hitter send a 98 mph fastball over the right-field fence, Francisco Alvarez — who did just that in the third inning of the Mets' win Wednesday — barely hesitated.

"I'd think he's a great hitter," he said.

The skies opened in the bottom of the fifth. Seconds after Francisco Alvarez’s RBI double, there was no drizzle but a zero-to-100 downpour that led to an 87-minute deluge delay.

It was appropriate on a night the Mets brought the thunder, and the Yankees were soaked.

The Subway Series reinforced what had been true a few days ago: The Mets are rolling, and the Yankees have been derailed.

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By the time the Citi Field rain delay arrived in the fifth inning, the Mets had already started to take control in Game 2 of the Subway Series. And after the 87-minute delay ended, they turned that into a rout of the Yankees — scoring eight runs after the game resumed in their 12-2 win to complete the sweep.

Francisco Alvarez and Tyrone Taylor both drove in three runs and homered, while Harrison Bader also added a home run. Back before the delay, Sean Manaea tossed five shutout innings, too, and limited the Yankees to just two hits.

The Mets, with the win, continued their tear in June. The Yankees, though, have dropped four consecutive series.

Mark Vientos’ first hit of the night drove in the Mets’ 12th run in Game 2 of the Subway Series.

His single into right field scored Pete Alonso from third during the eighth inning.

You tell yourself over and over again, and it just doesn’t matter. You know how long the baseball season is. How many twists and turns there will be that make most definitive statements today look like blather tomorrow.

Yet we are seduced into the statements anyway, as if no other baseball season has ever been played.

If you want yet more corroboration of this, let me take you way back in baseball history … to June 11. I waded through the teletype and black-and-white photos to recall the Mets had returned from winning the second of two games in London in stirring fashion and were trying to build upon those good vibes. Instead, they lost, 4-2, to the Marlins., fell to 28-37, and that triggered yet the latest spasm that this team was just not worth caring about, and David Stearns was a small-market executive without feel, and it was time to start shipping players out.

The Yankees that day crushed the Royals, 10-1. They moved their MLB-best record to 48-21 and furthered comparisons to the 1998 Yankees.

Today, the Mets are the toast of New York, and the Yankees just toast.

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Luis Severino will have to wait until July for the chance to face his former team, but Harrison Bader found a way to get a bit of revenge in Game 2 of the Subway Series.

Bader launched a ball 396 feet over the left-center field fence to give the Mets an 11-2 lead in the seventh inning against the Yankees.

Adrian Houser, still in the bullpen after opening the season as a starter, threw a scoreless seventh inning for the Mets, and he struck out Anthony Volpe on a four-seam fastball for the second out of the frame.

The Yankees still have just four hits.

Tyrone Taylor, who has received more playing time recently amid Starling Marte’s absence, extended the Mets’ lead with a three-run homer in the sixth inning.

His blast drove in Pete Alonso and Francisco Alvarez.