Francisco Lindor's monster season continues amid 'MVP' chants

Lindor now has 30 homers, 37 doubles and lots of clutch hits

By Matt Snyder Sep 3, 2024 at 10:22 pm ET• 2 min read

The Mets won on Tuesday in Citi Field over the Red Sox, 7-2. It was an important win for the Mets to keep pace -- only 0.5 games back -- with the Braves, who won 3-0 behind another dominant performance from NL Cy Young favorite Chris Sale. Mets fans had their eyes on a different award, though. 

Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor is having an outstanding season, particularly since the Mets turned into a great team around the start of June. The NL MVP is very likely locked up for Shohei Ohtani, but Lindor has been serenaded with "MVP" chants at home recently and it was happening again on Tuesday. 

He responded to the chants by playing like an MVP. 

With two outs in the third inning, it was 0-0. Lindor made it 2-0 with one swing. 

GONE! 🍎 pic.twitter.com/FUZIt7Vkit

— New York Mets (@Mets) September 3, 2024

That was his 30th homer of the season. He has 26 stolen bases, so four more would put him in the 30-30 Club. He joined it last season for the first time. The only other Mets to pull off that feat were David Wright (2007), Howard Johnson (three times) and Darryl Strawberry (1987).