{"id":700619,"date":"2026-05-16T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/700619\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:12:17","slug":"marcelo-mayer-hopes-to-use-home-run-as-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/700619\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcelo Mayer Hopes To Use Home Run As Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcelo Mayer is hoping he can start a hot streak at the plate after he hit a home run on Friday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>\u2019s 3-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer went 98 at-bats between home runs until he hit a game-tying home run in the top of the seventh inning. It was his first home run since April 3, as Mayer has struggled to get the ball over the fence to begin the year.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Red Sox did get walked off in the bottom of the 10th inning, Mayer hopes he can use the home run to get him on a hot streak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, those always feel good,\u201d Mayer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/redsox\/news\/red-sox-s-comeback-spoiled-in-walk-off-loss-vs-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> postgame on Friday. \u201cYou kind of try to ride with that feeing until it goes away, but yeah, you take those and run with those as best you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayer was expected to be a key part of Boston\u2019s offense this season, but he\u2019s struggled as he\u2019s hitting .233 with 2 home runs and 9 RBIs. It\u2019s been a slow start for the second baseman, amid Boston\u2019s slow start.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mayer knows he has to be better as he knows the offense has to start turning it around to get Boston back on track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all working really hard,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cObviously, a lot of guys aren\u2019t where they want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the loss on Friday, the Red Sox fell to 18-26 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/should-red-sox-revisit-trade-talks-two-time-all-star-infielder\/2ec7c82c32ed028fc3ae6315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Should Red Sox Revisit Trade Talks For Two-Time All-Star Infielder?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcelo Mayer is hoping he can start a hot streak at the plate after he hit a home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-700619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116585374906366033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}