NEW YORK — The ultimate fate of the 2024 Mets isn’t yet clear and won’t be for months. But one thing about their season is definitively settled: the Mets are the reigning kings of New York.

Their 12-3 blowout win Wednesday night capped a Subway Series sweep of the Yankees, adding two victories at Yankee Stadium to the two they scored at Citi Field last month. They still might not be on the same level as their interborough rivals in the standings, but the Mets nonetheless proved this week that their current trajectory is the more promising one.

Francisco Lindor homered twice, Tyrone Taylor went deep, collected three hits and made a sterling play on defense, and the Mets never had to sweat much in closing out their first Subway Series sweep in more than a decade. The club also moved five games above .500 for the first time in 15 months.

Less than two months ago, this sort of outcome would have been difficult to fathom. On the morning of May 30, the Yankees were 38-19, sporting the best record in the American League and the second-best in MLB. The Mets, conversely, were 22-33, better than only four teams in baseball.

Then Grimace arrived, “OMG” began blaring, the Mets commenced their early-summer rally and, about two weeks later, the Yankees started crumbling. The teams were already on opposing tracks by the time the Mets arrived in the Bronx this week. A pair of victories from the visitors served only to confirm what had been obvious for the better part of a month.

They also gave the Mets rare unblemished bragging rights in the annual Subway Series. Since the inception of Interleague play in 1997, the Mets had only swept the Yankees twice before in the season series, the last of those occurring in 2013. And this wasn’t just a sweep, but a bulldozing. Playing in front of four sold-out crowds, including the largest one at Yankee Stadium all season on Wednesday, the Mets outscored their rivals, 36-13.