NEW YORK (Interstat) — The Boston Red Sox used a pair of two-run homers from Anthony Seigler and Wilyer Abreu to defeat the New York Mets 6-2 on Friday night at Citi Field, handing the Mets their sixth loss in seven games.

A crowd of 38,090 watched the Red Sox improve to 44-48 while the Mets dropped to 40-55. The game lasted 3 hours, 7 minutes.

Boston struck first in the top of the first inning. Anthony Seigler reached on a fielding error by left fielder Juan Soto and advanced to second. Ceddanne Rafaela sacrificed Seigler to third, and after a walk to Wilyer Abreu, Masataka Yoshida doubled to left field, scoring both runners for a 2-0 lead.

Mets starter Nolan McLean settled down after the rocky first, retiring eight straight batters at one point. He finished with six innings, allowing five hits and no earned runs while striking out seven. But the two unearned runs in the first were enough to saddle him with the loss, dropping his record to 6-6.

The Mets got one run back in the third. Brett Baty singled, advanced on a force out and scored on a sacrifice fly by Soto. Boston led 2-1.

The score remained that way until the seventh, when the Red Sox broke the game open. Tsung-Che Cheng led off with a bunt single, and Seigler followed by crushing a line-drive homer to left field, his second of the season, making it 4-1. It was the pivotal blow of the game, extending Boston’s lead from one run to three and forcing the Mets to play from behind against a sharp Red Sox bullpen.

Seigler finished 3-for-5 with the home run and two RBIs. He scored three times.

Boston padded the lead in the ninth. With one out, Rafaela walked and Abreu launched his 11th homer of the season to right-center field, a two-run shot that made it 6-1.

The Mets answered in the bottom of the ninth when Baty hit his fourth home run, a solo shot to right field, but it was too late. Baty went 3-for-4 with a home run and an RBI. Jared Young added two hits for New York.

Red Sox starter Sonny Gray earned his 11th win against one loss. He pitched six innings, allowing one run on six hits, walking two and striking out five. The right-hander worked out of a jam in the third, getting Francisco Lindor to fly out after the Mets had trimmed the lead. He also induced a double play in the sixth to escape further trouble.

Boston’s bullpen held the Mets to one run over the final three innings. Garrett Whitlock, who relieved Gray in the seventh, got the final out of the eighth after a pair of singles. Closer Justin Wilson worked a perfect ninth, striking out one.

The Mets had their chances, especially in the eighth. With one out, A.J. Ewing singled and Juan Soto singled, putting runners at first and third. But Lindor flied out to center, Carson Benge flied out to right and Jorge Polanco flied out to second base, ending the threat.

Benge was 1-for-4, Polanco 0-for-4 and Lindor 1-for-4 for New York. The Mets stranded seven runners and went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position.

For Boston, Yoshida doubled twice and drove in two runs. Rafaela had one hit, scored once and walked once. The Red Sox collected 11 hits, including two doubles and two home runs, and drew four walks.

McLean’s counterpart in the Mets bullpen struggled. A.J. Minter allowed four hits and two earned runs in one inning, including Abreu’s homer. Cionel Pérez gave up two hits and two earned runs in two-thirds of an inning as Boston exploded in the seventh.

The Red Sox have won five straight games, building on a sweep of the Chicago White Sox before traveling to New York. The Mets, meanwhile, have lost three of four after taking two of three from the Kansas City Royals earlier in the week.

The series continues Saturday with Boston’s Jarren Duran scheduled to face Mets right-hander Kodai Senga. The teams will play a three-game set before the All-Star break.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Boston Red Sox 7, New York Mets 6. Interstat’s ELO system gave Boston a 53.60 percent probability to win. The Mets were installed as pregame favorites with a spread of minus 1.5. The total of eight runs went under the over-under line of 7.5.