PHOENIX — Francisco Alvarez’s home run celebrations have become almost as prodigious as his homers themselves.

The Mets don’t want the rookie catcher to stop with either, but Alvarez received what he considered sage advice on Thursday from third-base coach Joey Cora, who told him to better gauge the situation before launching into a full-blown celebration.

A night earlier, Alvarez carried his bat most of the way to first base and flung it high into the air as his ball cleared the right-field fence at Chase Field for a game-tying homer against the Diamondbacks with two outs in the ninth inning.

Alvarez began running the bases backward and flexing his muscles toward his teammates in the first-base dugout.

“[Cora] just said that emotions are good to have in a game, but let’s also keep in mind that at that point there was still a lot of game to be played since it was only a home run to tie the game,” Alvarez said through an interpreter before the Mets faced the Diamondbacks on Thursday. “If it’s one of those things where we take the lead by two runs or three runs, it’s more appropriate to do, but at that point we had to kind of stay locked into the game.”

Alvarez’s homer gave the Mets their first run before Mark Canha’s RBI triple later in the inning brought home the go-ahead run in what became a 2-1 victory.

Alvarez’s homer was his second in as many games and gave him 15 for the season, adding to his franchise rookie record for a catcher.

Cora reminded Alvarez that if the game Wednesday had stayed tied after his homer, he would have returned behind the plate at catcher and his emotions from the celebration would still have been high, and could possibly have caused him to make an error in judgment.

“[Cora] pulled me aside [Thursday] when we were more relaxed and he just said, ‘We have to understand the situations of the game,’ ” Alvarez said. “It wasn’t in a bad way. He wasn’t getting on me. He wasn’t trying to teach me a lesson. It was just to give me some good advice to say I have got to zone back into the game.”

Francisco Lindor was seen on camera speaking to Alvarez after the home run, but the Mets shortstop said the discussion wasn’t about the celebration.

Lindor added that he didn’t have an issue with Alvarez’s exuberance.

“He’s a young kid that is showing emotions that he wants us to win and he’s doing whatever it takes to help us win,” Lindor said.

Alvarez said seeing the excitement on his teammates’ faces as he flexed toward the dugout only added to the moment.

“I saw them all jumping around and everything,” Alvarez said. “That’s when it hit me, ‘Man, we just tied the game up,’ and right there my immediate thought was we were going to win the game.”

Alvarez agreed with the assessment his bat flip was “epic,” but said it’s something he should probably avoid in the future in that situation.

“I can’t do that again,” he said. “It wasn’t a home run to take the lead or anything. We have still got a baseball game to play. If it’s a tie ballgame at that point a bat flip probably isn’t necessary in that situation.”