NEW YORK — It’s not quite Morgan Magic just yet. Tracy Charm? That might need some workshopping, but the point stands: With a 14-2 stretch, the Boston Red Sox have turned their season around.Down 2-0 entering the ninth inning against the New York Mets, the Red Sox bounded back to tie the score and win 3-2 in extra innings, their impressive midseason run stretching their current win streak to nine games to close out the first half.The win gave them a perfect 9-0 trip, the first time since 1977, per Elias, that the Red Sox had gone 9-0 on the road.On June 25, the Red Sox had the worst record in the American League, 14 games below .500. On July 12, they sat two games under .500 and in a weak American League are just a half-game out of the third wild-card spot.“To be where we’re at right now, based on where we were three weeks ago, you couldn’t ask for much more,” said interim manager Chad Tracy, channeling his inner Joe Morgan, the famed 1988 Red Sox interim manager who turned a struggling Red Sox team into a playoff contender. “So the key is now, and I told them that too, part two is we’ve got to be ready to go when the second part of the season starts.”With little to show all day against Mets starter Zach Thornton, who threw seven scoreless innings, the Red Sox never lost hope their streak would be snapped.“It’s fun baseball, we’re playing loose,” starter Payton Tolle said. “I think even in this game, the feeling that I think everybody had, if we’re down or having to climb back, there’s a little bit of, ‘Well, I think we’re going to fight to the end of this thing, and no, we’re not going to lose.’”Tolle, on a planned shortened start to maximize rest over the break, allowed one run in 3 2/3 innings before turning the ball over to Brayan Bello, who’d been called up earlier in the day to serve in long relief. Bello allowed a solo homer over 4 1/3 innings but otherwise saved a taxed Red Sox bullpen and kept the game within reach.In the ninth, the Red Sox loaded the bases off closer Devin Williams with a single, error and walk before Andruw Monasterio drew a bases-loaded walk to push in a run and a Jarren Duran popup dropped into shallow right field to tie the score.Anthony Seigler hit a one-out sacrifice fly in the 10th to push in the go-ahead run.“It’s unbelievable,” said Seigler, who sported bruises on his forehead from his helmet slamming into home plate on a slide home last week. “It’s a lot of fun being a part of this group.”Before the game, Tracy had a message for his club: The break is coming, take advantage, but hold on to this feeling for the second half.“It’s as good as it can be,” he said of his team’s momentum. “Obviously, we got the break now, a little rest and recovery for everybody. But that’s a good one to let sink in for the four days, so when they’re thinking about Friday, that we’re ready to go.”Each of the last two years, the Red Sox have surged into the All-Star break but slumped afterward. Last season, they reeled off 10 straight wins before the break but went just 6-6 heading into the trade deadline. Still, that 10-0 stretch almost certainly helped them into the postseason. In 2024, they went 9-3 entering the break but just 3-8 heading into the deadline.“Enjoy the time off, but we still have work to do when we get back,” reliever Garrett Whitlock said. “We need to hit the ground running.”The stretch out of the break won’t be easy with 10 straight at home against AL East opponents.Pitching after the breakComing out of the break, the Red Sox open with a doubleheader in a four-game series Friday against the Tampa Bay Rays. As of now, the plan is for Jake Bennett to pitch one game Friday, with Patrick Sandoval starting Saturday and Sonny Gray on Sunday. Tracy said they would figure out who will pitch the other game of the doubleheader (he didn’t commit to Bennett pitching in the first or second game that day). Even with three starters on the injured list, the Red Sox have options. They could go back to Bello or call up a pitcher from Triple A, Tyler Uberstine or Alec Gamboa. Because of the doubleheader, the Red Sox will get to add a 27th man to the roster.Eduardo Rivera, who pitched Saturday for injured starter Ranger Suarez, is likely to stick around for at least one more start and should be in line for Monday after the break against the Baltimore Orioles, with Tolle to start Tuesday. That would give Tolle nine days’ rest. The Red Sox, also dealing with injuries to Garrett Crochet and Connelly Early, are likely mindful of Tolle’s innings in what is now his first full season in the majors.Payton Tolle will have nine days’ rest before his next start. (Jim McIsaac / Getty Images)Last year, he threw 108 innings across Single A, Double A, Triple A and the majors. This year for the Red Sox, he’s already thrown 99 innings in Boston and Triple-A Worcester. Tolle also had only four days’ rest versus the more traditional five days’ rest last turn through the order, so the Red Sox opted for the shorter start Sunday. That, coupled with the extended rest around the break, is all part of the effort to protect one of their top young arms.“Those are decisions for people a lot smarter than me,” Tolle said of the short start. “But I’m going to go out there every time. I want to compete every time. I want to go as long as I can every time. But I get it. I understand it.”Tolle said he wasn’t aware of the plan for the shorter start before the game, mainly because the Red Sox didn’t want him to change his mentality on the mound, but when he saw Bello warming in the fourth, he knew what was happening and joked with pitching coach Andrew Bailey.“I was like, ‘I’m going to come yell at you later, but I get it,’” Tolle quipped.Willson Contreras ready to join All-Star teammatesWillson Contreras, who served the fourth game of his five-game suspension Sunday, took batting practice at Citi Field before the game. As part of his suspension, Contreras cannot be in the clubhouse during the game and must leave the park entirely, but he made sure to get in some pregame work.Despite the suspension, Contreras can still partake in the MLB Home Run Derby on Monday and the All-Star Game on Tuesday. He’ll serve one more game of the suspension Friday afternoon after the break in the first game of a doubleheader against Tampa Bay, then be eligible to return for the second game.The timing of the suspension actually helped the Red Sox. He’d fouled a ball off his foot, exited Wednesday’s game and was not in the lineup Thursday before his official suspension ruling came down. On Sunday in BP, he looked back to form with no ill effects from the bruised foot.As for the All-Star Game, the Red Sox will be sending Contreras, Aroldis Chapman and Ceddanne Rafaela, and Suarez will not pitch as he rests from a groin strain, but Tracy did have thoughts about Gray’s absence from the honors.“There’s one missing,” Tracy said. “There’s one missing. So maybe we’ll still get word.”Gray leads the American League and ranks second in the majors in wins (12). He is second in the AL and fifth in the majors in ERA (2.54) among qualified starters. Gray is the first Red Sox starter ever to have at least 11 wins and one or fewer losses before the All-Star break (which began in 1933).New York Yankees starter Cam Schlittler announced Sunday he would be skipping the All-Star Game to keep in line with his bullpen schedule, which could open the door for Gray to be added.