New York Mets (45-51) vs. Boston Red Sox (51-46)
The 2023 MLB betting action goes on Sunday, July 23, so we are breaking down Sunday Night Baseball from Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, to get you the best Mets vs. Red Sox betting pick.
New York and Boston close down a three-game series at Fenway Park. Friday’s opener was suspended due to rain (New York led 4-3 in the fourth) and scheduled to resume Saturday afternoon before the middle contest of the series which has been excluded from the analysis.
The New York Mets entered Friday’s contest in Boston sitting six and a half games behind the final wild card in the National League. They’ve gone 3-3 since the All-Star break, taking two out of three games from the Chicago White Sox at home and losing a three-game home set against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Mets are hitting just .203/.320/.398 with six doubles and six home runs in the last seven days and 123 at-bats. Francisco Alvarez has homered three times in his last seven games, while Pete Alonso has amassed a paltry two singles in his previous eight contests and 27 at-bats. The Mets desperately need more from their offense if they want to stay alive in the playoff race.
Carlos Carrasco will toe the rub ber Sunday at Fenway Park, and the 36-year-old right-hander is 3-3 with a pedestrian 5.35 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, and 48/29 K/BB ratio in 13 starts (65.2 innings pitched) in 2023. After a dominant performance in a 9-0 thrashing of the Arizona Diamondbacks on July 6 when he allowed three hits and a walk across eight scoreless innings, Carrasco surrendered four earned runs on six hits and two walks through 4.2 frames of work in a no-decision against the White Sox this past Tuesday.