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Byrd provides all the pop for Mets

Marlon Byrd has never called The Bronx home, but he looked pretty comfortable at Yankee Stadium the last two nights.

Before Wednesday’s contest, he was engulfed in a dreadful 2-for-24 slide. He leaves red-hot, with homers on back-to-back days.

Byrd’s home run Wednesday night was a classic Yankee Stadium shot, a fly ball that bounced off the top of the shallow fence in right field. Yesterday’s two-run blast would have gone out of any park.

And it was all the offense the Mets and Dillon Gee would need, as they completed a shocking four-game sweep of the rival Yankees, 3-1.

Byrd’s second-inning homer into the second deck in left field staked Gee to an early two-run lead. Yankees starter Vidal Nuno missed with a fastball right down the middle and Byrd was all over it.

“You can’t miss those,” he said, “and thank goodness I put a good swing on it.”

Before the trip to Yankee Stadium, Byrd had homered just twice in his previous 15 games.

“Both,” he said emphatically when asked which homer was better. “Anything over the fence, they all count the same. It felt great. You go through your ups and downs. You get up to .270, look up and [you’re hitting] .230. The big thing is helping the team win and driving in runs for the team.”

He has six homers in 131 at-bats this season, and 14 extra-base hits to go along with his .244 average. He’s made his hits count, turning 31 hits into 24 RBIs, tied for third on the team.

The veteran has been a godsend for the outfield-poor Mets, after appearing in just 47 games a year ago with the Cubs and Red Sox. The 2010 All-Star hit just .210 with a single homer and also served a 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.

The Red Sox released Byrd before his suspension was up and, after a break, he played winter ball for the first time, in Mexico. Byrd has said the positive test was a result of accidentally taking a banned medication to treat an unspecified condition.

“Last year was a heartbreak for me and my family,” Byrd said. “I felt like I let down my family. It’s nice to be back in baseball and helping my team win.”

There were questions if he could still hack it at the major league level when the Mets signed him to a one-year, minor league contract. Though Byrd hasn’t lit the league on fire, he has brought professionalism, sturdy defense and clutch hitting, a .314 (11-for-35) batting average with men in scoring position.

“I needed one team to believe in me. The Mets believed in me, they knew my makeup and here I am helping them,” he said.

zbraziller@nypost.com