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Restless Mets fans won’t stop booing Francisco Lindor

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Less than a month after signing a 10-year, $341 million extension with the Mets, Lindor’s honeymoon with the fan base appears to be over as he was the subject of more boos during a 1-0 loss to the Red Sox at Citi Field.

Lindor went 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts, sinking his batting average to .203 (14-for-69) through 19 games. There were boos after each strikeout Wednesday: enough to hear it in the third inning and then a much louder chorus in the sixth from the sellout crowd of 8,051.

“It’s interesting and it’s funny and it sucks,” Lindor said before Wednesday’s loss, reacting to hearing the boos for the first time the night before. “It doesn’t feel right, for sure. Interesting, because this is the first time that it happened in my career, and funny because I’m getting booed and people think I’m gonna go home and think about why I’m getting booed. I get it. They’re booing because there’s no results. That’s it. They expect results, I expect results and I get it. It’s part of the job.

“I just hope they cheer and jump on the field when I start hitting home runs and start helping the team on a daily basis a lot more than I’m doing right now.”