Red Sox reactions: Mike Yastrzemski walks off hometown team, ruins Marcelo Mayer’s heroics

ATLANTA — Instant reactions as the Red Sox (18-26) claw back but lose to the ascendant Braves, 3-2, in extra innings as Mike Yastrzemski walks off his hometown team: 1) For the sixth game in a row, the Red Sox showed some fight in a close game. For the fourth time in those six, they lost. Mike Yastrzemski walked off the Red Sox in the 10th , ripping an opposite-field liner into the gap off Tyler Samaniego that plated the automatic runner and was ruled a double.

The Andover native — and son of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski — entered as a sub and delivered his team a win after the Braves blew a 2-0 lead. Boston had chances to take the lead in the ninth and 10th but Andruw Monasterio (struck out in the ninth with two men on) and Mickey Gasper (lined out in the 10th with runners on the corners) couldn’t get runs across. 2) The Red Sox have had few clutch homers so far this season and Marcelo Mayer now has two of them.

With two outs in the seventh and the club trailing by a run, Mayer took reliever Tyler Kinley deep to tie the game, 2-2 . The 101. 9 mph, 378-foot blast was Mayer’s second of the year, joining his clutch three-run shot in the home opener.

It put the Red Sox back in the game. 3) Atlanta’s red-hot lineup built a 2-0 lead with two homers off starter Connelly Early. In the first, Drake Baldwin took Early deep to dead center, barely clearing the wall (and Ceddanne Rafaela’s glove on a robbery attempt) on Early’s seventh offering.