Max Scherzer provided quite the Fenway Park tour Saturday night.
Then came a homer to deep right and another over the Green Monster.Scherzer matched a career high with four homers allowed, sending the Mets to an 8-6 loss to the Red Sox, their second defeat in three games.Mets received a strong bullpen performance and won 5-4But the Mets still ended the day six games below .500, with seven games remaining before the Aug. 1 trade deadline.
Duran hit a curveball off the right-field foul pole leading off the game for the Red Sox and Casas blasted a cutter for a homer to start the second inning.tilted the momentum in the Mets’ favor. But Yu Chang’s homer leading off the fifth tied it 3-3. Chang hit a Scherzer slider over the Green Monster.
Francisco Alvarez, Mark Vientos and Brett Baty each delivered RBI singles in the ninth to slice the Mets’ deficit. “It’s one thing to map out potentially what you would like to do,” manager Buck Showalter said, referring to the bullpen. “It’s another thing to get the other team to cooperate with you … people did their job and it allowed us to stay in turn to where they are best equipped to get outs.”
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