PHOENIX -- When the Diamondbacks ventured into the deep end of the international market two off-seasons ago and signed Yasmany Tomas to the richest contract in team history, at the time, they did so for nights like Tuesday and stretches like the one Tomas has been on the past month.
Tomas clubbed two more home runs and knocked in a career-high six runs to lead a well-rounded rout of the Mets, 13-5 at Chase Field.
It was Tomas' seventh multi-homer game this year, the most in the majors. He leads the National League with 12 home runs since July 24, and he overtook Jake Lamb for the team lead with 25.
"I'm really focused on what I'm doing right now," Tomas, who is hitting .333 with 23 RBI in his past 23 games, said through translator Ariel Prieto.
That increased focus isn't just in the batter's box. It extends to how Tomas prepares for each game now in the second half of his second Major League season.
"I've been doing the same routine every day the last three weeks," he said. "At the beginning of the season, it was a different routine. Now, the last three weeks, I got into a new routine."
On Wednesday, that routine led to a solo blast into the left-field bleachers as the second half of back-to-back homers with Rickie Weeks Jr., a two-run triple off the center-field wall and then a three-run homer into the camera well inset in the center-field batter's eye.
"I recognize the ball better right now and my swing is comfortable and I get good power," Tomas said.
"He's getting the right pitches to hit; that's big for him," D-backs manager Chip Hale said. "He's very comfortable ... and feeling good about himself. He's taking advantage of pitches up in the zone and that's what good hitters do."
With more than 40 games still to play, a 30-homer season seems inevitable. Which would be what the D-backs paid for when they signed Tomas out of Cuba to a six-year, $68.5 million contract in December 2014.
"I think a lot of people put that money tag on someone just coming over and it's a learning curve for everybody," said Weeks Jr., who also homered twice as the D-backs took the series from the Mets. "But I'll tell you what, the man has tools and is going to be a great player. I think he is a great player already."
Weeks' two homers came in his first three at-bats, as the D-backs built a 6-1 lead through five innings, and the veteran admitted to trying for a third in his final plate appearance.
"Honestly, I told the guys on the bench I was trying to and that probably caused me to strike out right there," he said. "But that's baseball. I'm glad we had a cushion there for me."
