Matt Harvey sprinted to the mound Tuesday night at Citi Field, looking eager to pitch at home for the first time since the Mets suspended him for three games for violating team rules this month.

Five innings later, Harvey could bask in a loud ovation as he slowly walked to the dugout after a three-strikeout inning. The bookends of his night were encouraging, but they failed to tell the complete story of an outing rife with control problems.

Instead, it was Michael Conforto who carried the Mets, with two home runs and a career-high four R.B.I., to a 9-3 win over the San Diego Padres. Conforto now has 13 home runs, a career high.

Conforto led off the bottom of the first inning with a homer over the right-field wall off Padres starter Jhoulys Chacin, whom the Mets bombarded. They made it through their entire lineup in the first inning, and when Conforto added a two-run single in his second at-bat of the inning, Chacin was pulled, having thrown just 40 pitches and collected only two outs while allowing seven runs and eight hits.