BOSTON —Red Sox starters in the coming postseason.But the veteran right-hander Brett Gardner Jersey , who won the Cy Young Award two years ago, will use the rest of September to straighten himself out on the mound so he can help his team get where it wants to go.Porcello, who faces the New York Mets in the second game of a three-game interleague series Saturday at Fenway Park, is 16-7 with a 4.27 ERA on the season. However, he is 2-3 with a 5.82 ERA in his last seven starts, yielding 10 home runs over that span.Article continues below ...Prior to that, he was 14-4 with a 3.84 ERA.Porcello is 1-1 with an 8.44 ERA in two career starts against the Mets, but he has not faced them since 2013.Porcello will face Mets rookie Corey Oswalt as the Red Sox look to even the series after Friday night’s 8-0 Mets victory — their fourth in a row — which snapped Boston’s four-game winning streak.Oswalt is 3-2 with a 6.62 ERA in 14 games, nine as a starter, and he has never faced the Red Sox.The Red Sox came into Friday night’s game 35-8 in their last 43 interleague games, but the Mets hit four homers and got seven shutout innings from Noah Syndergaard for the easy win, their fourth in 48 hours. Syndergaard (12-3) gave up three hits, walked three and struck out six.The Red Sox were set to start utility pitcher Hector Velazquez on Friday, but had to make a change as Velazquez was ill http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , turning it into a complete bullpen game.Left-hander Brian Johnson, fighting for a postseason spot, wound up going 4 2/3 innings and allowing only one run — on one of the four New York homers.“He threw the ball better,” said Boston manager Alex Cora. “When he came in with the bases loaded one thing was different from the last one. I was like, ‘Hey man, slow down.’ That’s the most important thing. You have to throw strikes, but make sure you slow down. He did a good job.”With the Boston loss and a win by the New York Yankees, the Red Sox, who have already clinched a postseason berth, saw their magic number for wrapping up the American League East remain at six.The “highlight” of the game for the local fans was the sight of a couple of rats, one very large, in and near the Mets dugout, providing some comic relief and plenty of finger pointing.“The thing was, he was a nice rat Brian Roberts Jersey ,” said New York’s Dominic Smith, who recently watched a documentary about rats. “He wasn’t trying to get anybody. He was trying to run. There are some mean rats out there.”Reliever Matt Barnes, a favorite in the Red Sox’s eighth-inning setup picture but out with hip inflammation, returned to a mound for the first time in almost a week with a side session.“Everything went well,” Cora said. “We’ll see how he recovers, and if everything goes fine, he’ll throw another one on Sunday.”Eduardo Nunez was out of the lineup Friday with a sore knee and won’t play Saturday, either.The Mets announced that David Wright, who is set to start at third base Sept. 29 in what will likely be his final game (because of injuries), will be used as a pinch hitter before that date.“I need to at least give him a few-innings heads-up,” manager Mickey Callaway said before Friday night’s game. “We’ll know how the game’s going and things like that. He’s definitely going to need a little time to prepare.”Veterans Jose Reyes and Jose Lobaton are the only current Mets with significant at-bats against Porcello. Reyes is 6-for-12 (.500) and Lobaton 3-for-8 (.375).Jacob deGrom and Chris Sale are matched up in a duel of aces Sunday, but that’s a bit misleading because Sale, who is still rebounding from left shoulder inflammation, is only slated to pitch three innings as the “opener.” PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks right fielder Steven Souza Jr. injured his left knee Monday night when he slipped on home plate during an exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox.Souza’s plastic cleats skidded across the plate as he scored from second base in the fourth inning Thurman Munson Jersey , and he immediately fell to the ground holding his left leg. Souza put no pressure on his leg while being helped off the field by two Arizona trainers. He was scheduled for an MRI on Tuesday, the team said.“Just a very unfortunate incident,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “I saw the tracks on home plate. I saw the tracks leaving home plate. These athletes are so strong, you put a little extra force on some cleats, you just don’t how it is going to respond. The only thing I remember is him flying across the air.”The severity of the injury wasn’t immediately known.Souza missed two months last season with a torn right pectoral muscle. He hit .220 with five homers and 29 RBIs in 72 games for the Diamondbacks.“It’s a terrible scenario for somebody who fought as hard as he last year to get back to where he was playing this year,” Lovullo said. “He had a mindset that he was going to be very, very good for us. That’s what’s heartbreaking for me.”Ervin Santana pitched five solid innings in his second spring training start to help the White Sox win 6-3 at Chase Field.Daniel Palka hit a two-run homer and rookie Eloy Jimenez had an RBI single in a three-run seventh.Santana gave up two runs and four hits, striking out three and walking two. He signed a minor league contract in February and is not on Chicago’s 40-man roster, although he is expected to be added when the team needs a fifth starter during the second week of April.“Everything is good,” said Santana, who missed most of last season in Minnesota with a finger injury. “I’m just taking it one day at a time, one pitch at a time, and whenever they need me, I’ll be ready.“I have to stay here and do my job. I’m not the boss here. I know I started spring training late and they think I need more starts Jorge Posada Jersey , so I’m going to stay here” in Arizona.Jake Lamb and John Ryan Murphy homered, and Luke Weaver gave up an unearned run in six innings for the Diamondbacks.Weaver allowed two hits, struck out five and walked two. The right-hander, part of the offseason package Arizona received from St. Louis for slugger Paul Goldschmidt, was 2-0 with a 1.04 ERA in four spring starts.“I feel as ready as I will ever be,” Weaver said. “This is going to be a great journey.”Lamb hit his first homer of the spring in the sixth.WHITE SOX ROTATIONChicago manager Rick Renteria revealed the order of his starting rotation, with Carlos Rodon, Reynaldo Lopez, Lucas Giolito and Ivan Nova to pitch the first four games. The first three will face Kansas City, and Nova will start the first game of a two-game series at Cleveland on April 1.“We wanted to give Nova an opportunity to start against Cleveland,” Renteria said. “We’re trying to put our best foot forward. Hopefully those matchups work out well for us.”TRAINER’S ROOMWhite Sox: OF Jon Jay (hip) felt soreness after playing Sunday and was re-evaluated Monday. “We’re optimistic we can manage it,” Renteria said. Jay is expected to be ready for the start of the season Thursday.Diamondbacks: LHP T.J. McFarland (shoulder) will open the season on the injured list.UP NEXTArizona right-hander Merrill Kelly opposes Nova when the teams conclude spring training Tuesday afternoon with the second of a two-game series at Chase Field.