Acuña ponies up first two homers for Bingo

It took until the 30th game since Luisangel Acuna was traded to the Mets organization, but MLB's No. 38 overall prospect launched his first home run for Double-A Binghamton. The wait for his second was much shorter.

Acuña led off the Rumble Ponies game with a homer to left field, his eighth of the season. And then three innings later, he sent one out to right-center for the first multihomer game of his career.

The top Mets prospect went 3-for-5 with a stolen base and three runs scored Wednesday night en route to Binghamton's 9-2 win over Hartford at Dunkin' Park.

Acuña’s leadoff homer was an absolute moonshot. On a 2-2 count, the 21-year-old turned on a hanging curveball from Rockies right-hander Mike Ruff, launching it an estimated 426 feet.

The second dinger wasn’t a cheapie either. In the fourth, Acuña took the first pitch he saw from righty reliever Fineas Del Bonta-Smith and mashed it the other way.

The multihomer outing snapped a 31-game streak without one for the hard-hitting infielder, who last went yard on July 26 for Double-A Frisco, when he was still a member of the Rangers organization.

The younger brother of Braves superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. was in the midst of his best season of his career with a .315/.377/.453 slash line, 68 runs scored, 51 RBIs and 42 stolen bases when he was dealt from Texas for Max Scherzer. After scuffling in his first month in the Mets organization, the Venezuela native appears to be finding his rhythm and has batted .327 in his last 12 games.

Through five September outings, Acuña has recorded three multihit games with 13 total bases, having swiped three of his 13 bags in 30 games with the Rumble Ponies.

And it seems like the power switch may have been flipped on now as well.