Mets 5, Red Sox 1

 

Well, we didn't sweep, but you still gotta like winning 2 of 3 against this year's Mets. 

These interleague games keep reminding me about 1986, Red Sox vs. Mets in the World Series, and especially Game 6, when we were one strike away from winning our first MLB championship since 1918. As everyone knows by now (Seinfeld even once did a bit about it), the grounder that would have ended the game and given us the trophy went between Bill Buckner's legs, the Mets won, and we had to wait until 2004 to finally win the Series.

So that's why beating the Mets 2 out of 3 games feels so good now.

This game was tied, 1-1, going into the seventh when reliever Liam Hendricks loaded the bases with no outs on three consecutive singles. Brennan Bernardino relieved Hendricks and promptly brought all three baserunners home (the runs were all scored to Hendricks). Francisco Lindor, the jackassy shortstop who was urging the ejections of Buehler and Cora last night and then laughing after they were booted, added an insurance run in the 9th with a homer. 

Positive side: we struck out Juan Soto three times in the game.. The m.f.'er did hit an RBI sac fly off Bernardino in that seventh inning, though.

Toronto crushed San Diego tonight, 14-0, so with this loss the Red Sox fall into third place, a half game back from the Jays and five back from New York. 

Next up is a nice, comforting four-game, Memorial Day weekend series against the last-place Orioles (16-32). Lucas Giolito (1-1, 7.08) will take the mound against Baltimore's Cade Povitch (1-3, 5.23) to continue his redemption arc. Let's sweep them birds and make up some lost ground in the AL East standings!