Red Sox overcome delays, beat Mets for seventh consecutive win

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald on Jul 10, 2026

Published in Baseball

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Just call them the Show and Go Sox.

For the second time in less than three weeks the Red Sox encountered severe travel delays that significantly delayed their arrival at the ballpark. The first time it happened in late June the club didn’t get home to Boston from Colorado until 5 a.m., and this week the Red Sox found themselves stuck in Chicago for nearly an entire day longer than planned.

By the time the Red Sox finally landed at LaGuardia Airport in New York City on Friday afternoon, they had barely two hours to prepare for their series opener against the Mets.

A 35-minute delay bought them a bit of time, but much like when they essentially rolled out of bed to beat the Yankees, the Red Sox ran on pure adrenaline and figured out a way to continue their remarkable run.

The Red Sox beat the Mets, 6-2, on Friday, riding a gutsy pitching performance by Sonny Gray and a couple of big knocks from Anthony Seigler, who sparked a two-run first-inning rally with a leadoff fly ball that was dropped for an error before breaking the game open with a two-run home run in the seventh inning.

The win was Boston’s seventh in a row, a new season high, and also marked the club’s 12th in 14 games since the first travel disaster back on June 24.

Seigler got the Red Sox started with a fly ball to left field that Juan Soto should have had easily, but the Mets superstar dropped the ball, allowing Seigler to reach second. A few batters later, after Wilyer Abreu walked to put two men on, Masataka Yoshida capitalized on the initial error and gave the Red Sox a 2-0 lead on his two-out, two-run double.

The Mets, who entered Friday last in the NL East with an abysmal 40-54 record, couldn’t get anything going over the first two innings against Gray but were able to bring some pressure in the third. After getting two men on with one out, Soto cut the deficit in half by lifting a sacrifice fly to left field. Third baseman Caleb Durbin threw the ball away after receiving the cut-off, allowing another runner to reach third, but Gray was able to escape the inning without further incident.

New York couldn’t touch him the rest of the way. Gray finished with one run allowed over six innings with five hits, a walk and three strikeouts.

Gray will reach the All-Star break with a 2.54 ERA over 95 2/3 innings in 17 starts for Boston.

Mets starter Nolan McLean also pitched well, allowing only the two first-inning runs — both unearned — over six strong innings. He gave up five hits and two walks with seven strikeouts, but as soon as the right-hander came out of the game the Red Sox extended their lead.

Red Sox shortstop Tsung-Che Cheng led off the seventh with a single, and Seigler struck with a two-run shot for his second home run of both the season and his MLB career.

The Mets made one more push in the bottom of the eighth. Garrett Whitlock came on after Tyron Guerrero pitched a scoreless seventh, and after allowing two unlucky singles to start the inning drew three consecutive flyouts, the first two of which were shallow enough to keep A.J. Ewing at third.

Then, in the top of the ninth, Abreu smashed a two-run home run of his own off Mets left-hander Cionel Perez to make it 6-1. Baty hit a solo shot off Greg Weissert with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, but that was as close as the Mets got.

When the Red Sox fell 14 games under .500 with a four-game series against the first-place Yankees looming at the end of June a surge like this would have seemed hopelessly fanciful. Yet now with two games to play before the All-Star break Boston is now 44-48, just four games underwater and right back in the thick of the AL wild-card chase.

The Red Sox are 1.5 games below the playoff cutline, and depending on the result of Friday’s Blue Jays vs. Padres game the club could also go into the weekend third in the AL East.

With their latest travel mishap behind them, the Red Sox will now look to catch up on some sleep before trying to clinch their third consecutive series victory Saturday. First pitch is scheduled for 4:10 p.m.