DENVER — Ronny Mauricio took “mile-high” literally Saturday night.

“It was very far, very far,” said Francisco Lindor, who was in the on-deck circle when the Mets rookie launched a ball into the third deck at Coors Field. “As soon as he hit it, I was like damn, it’s going a long ways . . . I was just admiring the baseball.’’

It was a portent of the domination to come — and maybe a sign that Mauricio can translate his talent for hitting the ball very, very hard to the big leagues.

In the midst of a grueling western road trip and a stretch of 10 games in a row, the Mets finally got a laugher courtesy of the cellar-dwelling Rockies and earned an 8-1 victory at Coors Field.

The Mets (41-24) own the best record in the National League, are a season-high 17 games over .500, have won seven of nine and will attempt to complete the sweep of the Rockies (12-52) on Sunday before returning home.

Mauricio scored two runs, went 2-for-4 with that 456-foot moonshot to right, and added a stolen base. Jared Young and Jeff McNeil also hit solo homers into the thin Denver air.

“I was looking for a good pitch [toward] the top of the zone and I did my damage,” said Mauricio, who was called up Tuesday and hadn’t hit a homer since September 2023 because of the torn ACL that cost him all of last season and more. “I’m trying to enjoy the moment and trying to have fun in the game.”

Brandon Nimmo and Luis Torrens drove in two runs each, and Lindor, who broke his right pinkie toe Wednesday, returned to the lineup and not only had three singles but stole two bases.

Clay Holmes (7-3, 2.95 ERA), a ground-ball pitcher who played to his strengths despite some defensive miscues behind him, allowed one run in six innings despite giving up nine hits. He walked none and struck out six.

The converted reliever has shown no signs of wearing down under his increased workload: He has pitched at least six innings in six of his last seven starts and hasn’t issued a walk in two straight games.

“I was able to get the right kind of contact, swing and miss with runners on base, and gave us a chance,” Holmes said. “Pitching here as a reliever, you don’t really feel [the thin air] a ton, but as I started to hit that 70-pitch mark, this started to feel like, I mean, about 100 . . . It’s really [about] not trying to do too much here. If you just execute your pitches and don’t try to overthrow and do too much, you give yourself a chance.”

Holmes’ outing and the Mets’ offensive onslaught saved a bullpen that consistently has been confronted with high-leverage (and thus high-taxing) game situations. Jose Butto and Jose Castillo pitched three scoreless innings in relief.

And it all started with the 24-year-old who’s played all of 21 games in the minors and majors since December 2023.

A day after hitting a ball that would have been a homer anywhere but Coors Field, Mauricio tried again and very much did not miss. The infielder, who had been 0-for-11 before doubling Friday, obliterated German Marquez’s hanging curve to give the Mets a 1-0 lead in the third.

Ryan McMahon led off the fourth with a homer to tie it, but Young teed off on Marquez to lead off the fifth, hitting a first-pitch sinker below the strike zone over the leftfield wall to put the Mets ahead 2-1. Mauricio singled, stole second and moved to third on Lindor’s grounder before Nimmo singled for a 3-1 lead.

McNeil smacked a leadoff homer 414 feet into the home bullpen in right for a 4-1 lead in the sixth, and th

e Mets scored three in the seventh. With the bases loaded, Tyrone Taylor hit a sacrifice fly to left and Torrens lined a two-run single that put the Mets up 7-1. Nimmo tacked on an RBI double in the eighth.

Nothing, though, was quite as majestic (and as promising) as Mauricio’s homer.

“We know the power is real,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “This is a guy that missed a whole year of development and it’s really good to see him now do some of the things he’s capable of.”