Nothing can cure the Mets ills from the past two losses to the Atlanta Braves then beating up on an injured and rebuilding Boston Red Sox team.
After struggling to garner any offense the first three games of the season that saw the Mets score a combined five runs, New York scored seven on Monday night thanks to big home runs by Pete Alonso, Michael Conforto and Dominic Smith.
The Mets opened up the scoring in the top of the second inning when Conforto took Boston starter Josh Osich deep for a two-run homer to give the Mets an early 2-0 advantage.An inning later, Alonso, who has really struggled with the bat in the early season, nailed a homer off the top of the Green Monster in left to push the Mets ahead 4-0.
And that would not be all. In the top of the fourth with Wilson Ramos and Robinson Cano on base, Dominic Smith went deep for his first homer of the season to right-center to expand the Met lead to 7-0.
All the runs went to the good of former Cardinals starter Michael Wacha, who made his Mets debut. Wacha was solid for New York, giving up only a run on five hits over five innings of work. He walked one and struck out four, to earn his first win in blue and orange.
After Chasen Shreve and Jeryus Familia struggled in the later innings, Seth Lugo got the opportunity to close and did a fine job, retiring the four batters to face him in the eighth and ninth innings.
The Mets and Sox conclude the Boston part of their four-game mid-week series tomorrow. It will be a bullpen night for New York.
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