inside the mets

What the changing conditions at Citi Field mean for the Mets and their home run chances

By
Mark W. Sanchez
Published June 13, 2025, 6:40 a.m. ET
Jacob Young #30 of the Washington Nationals watches as a New York Mets fan catches a home run ball hit by Brandon Nimmo #9 of the New York Mets during the fifth inning of the game at Citi Field on June 11, 2025 in New York City.
Jacob Young of the Nationals watches a home run by Brandon Nimmo go over the Citi Field fence on June 11, 2025. Getty Images

It wasn’t even a Mets home run that fired up Brandon Nimmo.

On Tuesday, Nimmo watched Washington’s CJ Abrams take a low-and-away fastball from Griffin Canning and lift it the opposite way. Playing left, Nimmo ranged back — and back and back — and then leapt at the wall, a couple feet too short to rob what became a fifth-inning home run.

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