Monasterio, Yoshida Go Deep as Boston Blanks New York 4-0

Boston needed exactly two swings to beat New York on Saturday, both of them home runs, both of them with Caleb Durbin on base. Andruw Monasterio and Masataka Yoshida each went deep, combining for four RBI and a complete shutout of the Mets.

The story of the night was Boston's ability to manufacture all four of its runs in just two at-bats. Durbin reached twice and scored twice — going 2-for-3 on the night — and each time he did, someone drove him in with a home run. In the fourth, Monasterio turned on a pitch and sent it 378 feet to left, scoring Durbin and flipping the game's momentum entirely. That swing moved New York's win probability from 58% to 36%, a 22-point collapse in a single moment. The Mets had been the home favorite; after that ball landed, they never looked like one.

Yoshida added the exclamation point in the eighth, going the other way 360 feet to right with Durbin aboard again, pushing the final to 4-0. Monasterio finished 2-for-3 with the homer, 2 RBI, and a run scored. Yoshida was 1-for-3 with the same line. Two hitters, two home runs, four runs — Boston didn't need anything else.

On the pitching side, Boston's bullpen construction looks like the real unsung piece of this win. Eduardo Rivera opened with 3.2 innings, allowing just 1 hit and 0 earned runs while striking out 3. Danny Coulombe followed with 2.0 clean innings — no hits, no earned runs, though he did issue 3 walks. Greg Weissert closed it out with a tidy 1.0 inning, 1 hit, 0 runs, and 2 strikeouts. Three relievers, 6.1 combined innings, zero earned runs allowed. For New York, Freddy Peralta struggled with his command, walking 5 batters across 4.1 innings while allowing 3 hits and 2 earned runs. He struck out 6, but the walks kept Boston's lineup alive long enough for the damage to land. Francisco Alvarez went 2-for-3 to lead New York offensively, and Jorge Polanco added a 1-for-4 night, but the Mets never found a way to put anything on the board against a Boston pitching staff that simply refused to crack.