The Mets completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field, winning Sunday afternoon's affair by a score of 5-3.

Here are the key takeaways...

-Have a series, Francisco Lindor. The Mets shortstop homered for the third time of the three-game series in the bottom of the fifth inning, a solo shot to left that put the Mets up 4-3 after the Rockies had just fought back to tie the game.

Lindor ended up with six hits and three RBI in the series, and the Mets have now won each of the last 26 games in which Lindor has homered.

-Don't look now, but Juan Soto is starting to find his power stroke. After homering on Saturday, Soto went yard again, this time lifting a solo shot to give the Mets a late insurance run. Soto now has 10 home runs on the season, with his OPS now at .792.

-Clay Holmes has been terrific for the Mets over the first two months of the season, and he was mostly excellent again on Sunday afternoon. Holmes was plagued by a pair of long balls, as Orlando Arcia hit a solo shot in the third inning (just out of the reach of a leaping Tyrone Taylor) and Tyler Freeman hit a two-run homer in the top of the fifth, but he was otherwise excellent.

Holmes pitched 7.0 innings for the first time in his career, allowing just three earned runs on three hits with three strikeouts and no walks. Holmes has now allowed three runs or fewer in 10 of his 12 starts.

-On the other side, Colorado starter Carson Palmquist was dealing early, striking out six Mets over his first 3.0 scoreless innings of work. But the Mets got to him in the fourth, putting two runners on before Pete Alonso provided the power, launching his 12^th home run of the season to right field to give the Mets a 3-1 lead.

Palmquist went 4.2 innings, allowing four earned runs on four hits, striking out eight while walking two and allowing a pair of homers.

-Edwin Diaz snapped a streak of hitters going 0-for-their-last-30 against him, but the closer struck out three hitters in a scoreless ninth inning to pick up the save.

-A day after exiting the game with a calf cramp, Brandon Nimmo was not in Sunday’s starting lineup, with manager Carlos Mendoza saying the club wants to be overly cautious due to the trickiness of the calf.

-Starling Marte made his third appearance of the season in left field, scoring a run on Alonso's homer, and Nimmo would eventually come into the game as a defensive replacement, a sign that all is good with the outfielder.

Who was the game MVP?

While the stars (Alonso, Lindor, and Soto) provided the pop, Holmes gets the nod for his first-career 7.0-inning performance.

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