NEW YORK -- Nothing this season has come easily for the Mets. So it was perhaps fitting that their final game of the first half featured a spoiled start, a blown lead, multiple errors and one of the more excruciating losses of their season as they fell 3-2 to the Red Sox.
After rookie Zach Thornton delivered seven shutout innings in his third career appearance, providing the second-best outing by a Mets pitcher all season in terms of Game Score, closer Devin Williams blew his second consecutive save on two hits, two walks and a Francisco Lindor error in the ninth. The Red Sox took their first lead an inning later on an Anthony Seigler sacrifice fly, and the Mets could not match it in the bottom of the 10th.
Lindor plated both of the Mets’ runs with a homer and an RBI double, but his fielding error on a potentially game-ending double play ball in the ninth extended a rally for the Red Sox, who went on to tie things on a bases-loaded walk and a Jarren Duran bloop single. Thornton ended up with a no-decision despite allowing just two hits and two walks over seven scoreless innings.