The Red Sox trailed 2-0 heading into the ninth inning against the Mets and it did not matter one bit. Boston tied it right back up, won it in extra frames, and walked out of Queens with a perfect 9-0 road trip and a nine-game winning streak riding straight into the All-Star break.
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The tying rally started with a swing everyone in the building saw coming and nobody could stop. Jarren Duran got a hold of one to pull Boston level, and the Red Sox added the second run of the frame to make it 2-2 heading to extras.
The Red Sox tie it up in the top of the ninth, and the building goes quiet.
Boston finished the job in the 10th on a sac fly off the bat of Anthony Siegler for the 3-2 final, but the play that will get replayed all week came a half-inning earlier. Francisco Lindor had a shot at a game-ending double play with the Mets still up 2-0, and the sequence fell apart in the worst possible way for New York.
Lindor's chance at ending it right there, and the play that instead cracked the door open for Boston.
Nobody embodied the misery in real time quite like Frank Fleming, the extremely online Mets diehard whose feed doubled as a running eulogy. He torched Devin Williams mid-collapse and pinned the blame squarely on the front office that brought him in, not exactly a shocking take given the closer's ERA has ballooned to 10.29 on the season. David Stearns signed Williams to a three-year, $51 million deal to reunite with him after their Milwaukee days, and it has been a rough go from the jump.
His name is actually crotchfelt I hate David Stearns he dies this on purpose
Barstool's crew wasted no time checking in on the man himself for a reaction, and it landed exactly how you'd expect from someone who has watched this Mets team crater into one of the worst finishes to a first half in franchise memory.
The obligatory check-in on Frank after another Mets gut punch, memorabilia wall and all.
For Boston, this is now a genuine bandwagon-building stretch. A 9-0 trip is only the second in franchise history, with the last one dating back to a 1977 road swing, and Paul Blackburn's multi-inning work out of the pen has quietly been the connective tissue holding these comeback wins together. Every win on this trip has come from behind, which says as much about the pitching staff buying time as it does about the lineup refusing to quit.
The Mets, meanwhile, are staring at a first half nobody in Queens wants to remember. They've lost 16 of their last 22, sitting 17 games under .500, the franchise's worst mark at the break since 1995 and this despite entering the year with the sport's highest payroll. Boston gets to enjoy the break riding the best momentum in baseball. New York gets four days to figure out how a $51 million closer and a roster built to win now ended up here.