Game Chat: Red Sox vs Mets, 6:45 PM

Saturday, May 21, 2025 • 6:45 PM
Fenway Park • Boston, MA
RHP Tylor Megill (3-4, 3.74) vs. LHP Garrett Crochet (4-3, 2.00)
SNY • MLBN

The Mets are officially in their first losing streak of the season, dropping three games in a row and five of their last six. Their pitching the last couple of nights has kept them in games, but the offense has fallen completely flat.

The Mets will have to break this streak in the most difficult way possible. The bats will need to exorcise their demons against Garrett Crochet. Tylor Megill will need to figure out how to put his rough month of May behind him as he faces one of the more potent offenses in baseball.

Mets Lineup

1. Francisco Lindor – SS
2. Starling Marte – LF
3. Juan Soto – RF
4. Pete Alonso – 1B
5. Mark Vientos – DH
6. Luis Torrens – C
7. Tyrone Taylor – CF
8. Luisangel Acuña- 2B
9. Brett Baty – 3B

Tylor Megill has a 3.74 ERA, 3.13 FIP, 1.385 WHIP, and a 104 ERA+ over 43 1/3 innings. If all of his starts were about the same, we would be pretty happy with this stat line from Megill, but he’s really had two different seasons so far. In his first five games, he had a 1.09 ERA, 2.35 FIP. In his four starts since then, he has a 7.23 ERA with a 4.32 FIP. His strikeouts are high, 26 in 18 2/3 innings during his tough streak, but teams are scoring on him. The Red Sox have the following career numbers against him:

• Wilyer Abreu 0-1, K
• Alex Bregman 2-5
• Rafael Devers 0-1
• Jarren Duran 1-2, 2B
• Nick Sogard 1-1
• Connor Wong 1-2, K

Opposing Lineup

1. Jarren Duran – LF
2. Rafael Devers – DH
3. Alex Bregman – 3B
4. Wilyer Abreu – RF
5. Kristian Campbell – 2B
6. Nick Sogard – 1B
7. Trevor Story – SS
8. Carlos Narváez – C
9. Ceddanne Rafaela – CF

The Red Sox’s offseason was built around acquiring Garrett Crochet. He has delivered so far his season with a 2.00 ERA, 2.80 FIP, 1.063 WHIP, and a 207 ERA+ over a league-leading 10 starts and league-leading 63 innings. In half of his starts this season, he has allowed zero runs or one run. Luckily for the Mets, he’s coming off a start where he allowed two runs! (Over seven innings). Crochet faced the Mets last September when the White Sox were controlling his innings. The solo home run Francisco Lindor hit off him was the only run he allowed over 3 1/3 innings. Crochet struck out eight Mets hitters, representing 80% of the outs he recorded. The Mets have the following career stats against him:

• Pete Alonso 0-2, 2 K
• José Azócar 0-1, K
• Francisco Lindor 1-3, HR, K
• Starling Marte 0-3, K
• Tyrone Taylor 0-1, K
• Luis Torrens 0-2, K
• Mark Vientos 1-2, K

Game Notes

Ronny Mauricio has homered in two straight games for Triple-A Syracuse.

Paul Blackburn tossed seven scoreless innings on Wednesday for Syracuse.

Three Things To Watch For

1. Hitting with RISP / Hitting home runs. Neither team did a good job of hitting with runners in scoring position Tuesday night. The Mets went 0-for-7 and the Red Sox went 0-for-4. The two teams combined left only 13 runners on base – there just wasn’t a lot of hitting, but the Red Sox got two solo home runs that made all the difference. The Mets as a team haven’t hit a home run since May 13th. At some point, this will just course correct. It’s just happening during the Mets’ toughest stretch of games in the season to date.
2. Francisco Lindor. Before Tuesday night’s game, Lindor was mired in a 1-for-21 slump. He’s not out of it yet, but he had a positive night last night, going 1-for-3 with a single that came off his bat at 107 mph. He also hit a scorching ground ball (98.6 mph) that unfortunately became a double play. He’s the only player on the Mets who has homered against tonight’s starter, Garrett Crochet.
3. Bullpens are in opposite places. The Red Sox effectively pitched a bullpen game Tuesday night with Buehler returning from the injured list, limited to only two innings due to his ejection. Tonight they have the league leader in innings pitched, so they are hoping to give most of the bullpen the night off (although several of their high-leverage guys have now pitched in back-to-back games). The Mets are the opposite right now, only Max Kranick, Jose Castillo, and José Buttó have pitched in the last two nights. With a day off tomorrow, everyone else should be available tonight.

Let’s go Mets!

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