The Mets began a series with the Red Sox on Friday night at Fenway Park, but the two teams couldn’t progress past the fourth inning before heavy rain halted play with the Mets leading 4-3. After multiple hours, the game was suspended as the weather refused to relent.
Although play halted with the Mets in the lead, it was the Red Sox who scored first. Jarren Duran reached base with a leadoff single and then advanced to third after Francisco Álvarez’s throw on an attempted stolen base found its way into center field. A weak ground ball off the bat of Justin Turner with the infield playing back brought Duran in to give the Sox an early 1-0 lead.
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Kodai Senga got into more trouble in the second inning after retiring the first two batters he faced. A walk to Triston Casas and an infield hit off the bat of Connor Wong brought up Yu Chang batting in the ninth spot in the order. Chang sent a ball into left field that just scraped off the Green Monster which scored the two baserunners to extend the Boston lead to three.
The three-run lead didn’t remain for long, though. With Brett Baty on second base after a leadoff double in the top of the third, Brandon Nimmo connected on a hanging breaking ball that he crushed over the right field wall, giving him his 15th home run of the year and bringing the Mets back within one run.
The Mets erased the Red Sox’ lead entirely the following inning. Jeff McNeil reached second base on a leadoff double, just as Baty had the previous inning, and then Daniel Vogelbach demonstrated serious power by crushing a ball above the strike zone over the wall in right field for the Mets’ second two-run homer in as many innings.
That was all the two teams could fit in before it started pouring. Senga, of course, will not take the mound when the game resumes tomorrow. His outing ends after 3 1/3 innings pitched in which he gave up three hits, one walk, and struck out three while giving up three earned runs.
The game will pick up tomorrow with one out and nobody on in the bottom of the fourth inning with the Mets holding a 4-3 lead. First pitch is scheduled for 2:10 p.m. ET, while the game originally scheduled for 4:10 p.m. ET will be pushed back to 7:10 p.m. ET.
