NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Andrew Monasterio and Masataka Yoshida hit two-run homers as the surging Boston Red Sox played after a night of normal rest and extended their winning streak to eight games with a 4-0 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Boston is on its longest winning streak since taking 10 in a row from July 4-13 last year. The Red Sox have won 13 of 15 and 16 of 21.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox arrived late for Friday’s series opener after flight trouble stranded them in Chicago for nearly 24 hours. Boston poked fun at the ordeal by sporting white T-shirts that read \u201cShow and Go Airlines, See You at 4:15.”<\/p>\n
Following a leadoff walk to Caleb Durbin in the fourth, Monasterio gave put the Red Sox ahead by hitting a fastball from Freddy Peralta (5-8) into the left-field seats. Durbin singled off Tobias Myers starting the righth and Yoshida lifted a 1-0 cutter into the right-field seats.<\/p>\n
Eduardo Rivera started with 3 1\/3 hitless innings in his first big league start, allowing Jorge Polanco’s single on his final pitch.<\/p>\n
Greg Weissert and Jovani Moran (2-2) combined to pitch the next 2 2\/3 innings and Justin Slaten escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth with a called third strike on rookie A.J. Ewing, who lost an ABS challenge.<\/p>\n
Danny Coulombe ended the eighth on Polanco’s double-play grounder and finished Boston’s AL-leading ninth shutout.<\/p>\n
Peralta allowed two runs, three hits and five walks in 4 1\/3 innings. He is 0-3 with a 7.59 ERA in his last five starts.<\/p>\n
New York (40-56) went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position for the second straight day. They Mets were blanked for the ninth time and held to three hits or fewer for the eighth time.<\/p>\n
LHP Payton Tolle (5-6, 3.14 ERA) starts for Boston Sunday. Rookie RHP Zach Thornton (0-1, 4.35) will likely pitch behind an opener for the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Andrew Monasterio and Masataka Yoshida hit two-run homers as the surging Boston Red Sox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[19234,5,141,48,2542,3615,138,37370,74108,753,10504,120,24530,1093,792,4,9500,9501,3973,9496,9497,83947,22858,22859,89,14205,2543,2006,3887],"class_list":["post-749314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-andrew-monasterio","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-chicago","tag-daniel-coulombe","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-greg-weissert","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-jovani-moran","tag-justin-slaten","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-payton-tolle","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-mets-score","tag-redsox","tag-tobias-myers","tag-zach-thornton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749314","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=749314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}