It took 56 innings and nearly 250 plate appearances for the Mets, but Brett Baty finally snapped their homerless streak that had lasted more than five games.

Pete Alonso and Eduardo Escobar added blasts later, too.

That didn’t fix anything else, though. The offense, limited to six hits in an 8-5 loss to the Rays (32-11) at Citi Field, still sits buried in a massive slump that, somehow, seems to keep getting worse.

There were boos for Justin Verlander, but the Mets (20-23) and their offense received just as many from the 28,296 fans in attendance Tuesday night.

What unfolded was more of what has defined the Mets’ season: routine ground balls, simple fly outs and soft contact that never posed a threat.

The homers provided a brief break from the struggling offense, but those were the “by-products of good swings at good pitches” and not necessarily a blueprint applicable to the next 119 games, Brandon Nimmo told The Post.

“I mean, it doesn’t eat at me,” Nimmo said about the team’s homerless streak. “We’re not quite built that same way, where we have to live and die by the home run. It is nice, but I think more so we, just as an offense, need to string together better at-bats consistently on a weekly basis, two-week basis. Not just one day.”

Fourteen of the Mets’ outs came on the fourth pitch of the count or earlier, which manager Buck Showalter said contributed to Verlander having short rest between innings. A flash of potential came in the fifth, when Baty sent a 93 mph sinker 419 feet to right-center field, snapping the span of innings without a homer just short of the longest stretch in club history (six games in 2015).

Jeff McNeil then singled to right-center to start the seventh inning, and Alonso launched a ball to left field that Randy Arozarena didn’t even move for as it sailed over his head and over the wall.

And that was it, really, for the Mets, until Escobar hit a pinch-hit homer in the ninth.

“We did it last year,” Nimmo told The Post about not depending on home runs. “We didn’t have to live and die by the home run last year, and we were a very good offense. And so we’ve proven that it can be done.”

When the Rays took their 3-0 lead in the third inning, the Mets went down in order and didn’t hit a ball out of the infield. And when the Rays added a fourth run in the next frame, the Mets, again, couldn’t generate a base runner.

“It would really help to see us put some runs up there early and give our pitchers a little bit of breathing room,” Showalter said.