BOSTON (AP) — Brett Baty drove in three runs on two hits, including a two-run single to break a seventh-inning tie and help the New York Mets avert a three-game sweep by beating the Boston Red Sox 5-1 on Wednesday night.
Baty also singled home Mark Vientos in the first to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. Francisco Lindor had a pair of hits, including a solo homer in the ninth, as New York won for just the second time in seven games.
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Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran (16) leaps and makes the catch on a fly out by New York Mets' Francisco Lindor during the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Mets' Juan Soto (22) heads to the dugout after striking out, as Boston Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez throws the ball back to the pitcher, in the sixth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Mets' Luis Torrens, left, is tagged out by Boston Red Sox catcher Carlos Narváez while trying to score on a single by Brett Baty during the first inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Mets' Brett Baty watches his single in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Huascar Brazobán (3-0) picked up the win after coming on with the bases loaded in the fifth and striking out Alex Bregman to end the inning.
Jarren Duran hit a long fly ball to the warning track in right field with the bases loaded in the fifth inning for a sacrifice fly that gave Boston its only run.
Liam Hendriks (0-1) relieved Garrett Crochet with one out in the sixth and finished the inning but gave up three straight singles to start the seventh, including an infield single by Luisangel Acuña that was initially ruled an out before replays showed he beat the throw to first.
Brennan Bernardino replaced Hendriks and gave up Baty's single that one-hopped off the Green Monster, scoring two to make it 3-1. Juan Soto added a sacrifice fly to make it 4-1.
Boston loaded the bases in the fifth but had to settle for one run on Duran's sacrifice fly on a 108 mph line drive to the warning track in right. After Rafael Devers walked to reload the bases, Brazobán came on and struck out Bregman looking on a 3-2 pitch.
Mets starter Tylor Megill matched his career high with 10 strikeouts. The Red Sox struck out a season-high 16 times in all.
The Mets open a three-game series against the Dodgers in New York on Friday night, with LHP Clayton Kershaw (0-0) facing RHP Griffith Canning (5-1).
Boston welcomes Baltimore for the start of a four-game series. LHP Cade Povich (1-3) will face RHP Lucas Giolito (1-1) in the opener.
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Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran (16) leaps and makes the catch on a fly out by New York Mets' Francisco Lindor during the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Mets' Juan Soto (22) heads to the dugout after striking out, as Boston Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez throws the ball back to the pitcher, in the sixth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Mets' Luis Torrens, left, is tagged out by Boston Red Sox catcher Carlos Narváez while trying to score on a single by Brett Baty during the first inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Mets' Brett Baty watches his single in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect.
University President Christina Paxson said she was told that all 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting, authorities said.
Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic and stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, backyards and porches for hours late into the night after the shooting erupted in the afternoon.
The suspect was a male in dark clothing who was last seen leaving the engineering building where the attack happened, said Timothy O’Hara, deputy chief of Providence police.
Some witnesses told them the suspect, who could be in his 30s, may have been wearing a camouflage mask, O'Hara said.
Investigators were not yet sure how the shooter got inside the first-floor classroom. Outer doors of the building were unlocked, but rooms being used for final exams required badge access, Providence's mayor said.
Authorities believe the shooter used a handgun, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Rhode Island has some of the strictest gun laws in the U.S. Last spring the Democratic-controlled Legislature passed an assault weapon ban that will prohibit the sale and manufacturing of certain high-powered firearms, but not their possession, starting next July.
“The unthinkable has happened,” Democratic Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said.
Mayor Brett Smiley said a shelter-in-place remained in effect and encouraged people living near the campus to stay inside or not return home until it is lifted. Streets that normally bustle with activity on weekends were eerily quiet.
“We have all available resources” to find the suspect, Smiley said.
Emma Ferraro, a chemical engineering student, was in the engineering building’s lobby working on a final project when she heard loud pops coming from the east side.
Once she realized they were gunshots, she darted for the door and ran to a nearby building where she was waited for a couple of hours.
Eight people with gunshot wounds were taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where six were in critical but stable condition, according to Kelly Brennan, a spokesperson for the hospital. Another was in critical condition and one was stable, she said.
University officials initially told students and staff that a suspect was in custody, before later saying that was not the case. The mayor said a person preliminarily thought to be involved was detained but was later determined to have no involvement.
Nearly five hours after the shooting, officers in tactical gear led students out of some campus buildings and into a fitness center.
The shooting occurred in the Barus & Holley building, a seven-story complex that houses the School of Engineering and physics department. According to the university’s website, the building includes more than 100 laboratories, dozens of classrooms and offices.
Engineering design exams were underway there when the shooting occurred.
Brown senior biochemistry student Alex Bruce was working on a final research project in his dorm directly across the street from the building when he heard sirens outside and received a text about an active shooter shortly after 4 p.m.
“I’m just in here shaking,” he said, watching through the window as a half-dozen armed officers in tactical gear surrounded his dorm. He said he feared for a friend who he thought was inside the engineering building at the time.
Students in a nearby lab hid under desks and turned off the lights after receiving an alert about the shooting, said Chiangheng Chien, a doctoral student in engineering who was about a block away from the scene.
Mari Camara, 20, a junior from New York City, was coming out of the library and rushed inside a taqueria to seek shelter. She spent more than three hours there, texting friends while police searched the campus.
“Everyone is the same as me, shocked and terrified that something like this happened,” she said.
President Donald Trump told reporters that he had been briefed on the shooting and “all we can do right now is pray for the victims.”
Brown, the seventh oldest higher education institution in the U.S., is one of the nation's most prestigious colleges, with roughly 7,300 undergraduates and more than 3,000 graduate students. Tuition, housing and other fees run to nearly $100,000 per year, according to the university.
Durkin Richer reported from Washington. Associated Press journalists Mike Balsamo and Seung Min Kim in Washington; Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City; Jack Dura in Bismarck, North Dakota; Martha Bellisle in Seattle; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.
Students are escorted by law enforcement officers to a building at Brown University after a shooting, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Providence, R.I.. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A law enforcement official walks past articles of clothing on a sidewalk near an entrance to Brown University, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Providence, R.I., during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Law enforcement officials carry rifles while walking on a street in a neighborhood near Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Law enforcement officials walk near an entrance to Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Emergency personnel gather on Waterman Street at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Emergency personnel gather on Waterman Street at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Law enforcement officials carrying weapons gather near Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Ambulances line Hope Street at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during reports of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Emergency personnel gather at Hope and Waterman Streets at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during reports of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Ambulances line Hope Street at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during reports of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Emergency personnel gather at Hope and Waterman Streets at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, during reports of a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
In this image from video, law enforcement officials gather outside the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi)
FILE - The logo for Brown University is displayed at the school's campus in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
