MLB

Red Sox not blown away by Mejia’s perfect inning

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Jenrry Mejia mowed down the Red Sox yesterday — three up-three down.

That said, the Met phenom didn’t quite dazzle the most accomplished hitter he faced.

The 20-year-old continued his exceptional spring, firing a perfect inning of relief in the Mets’ 4-2 Grapefruit League victory over the Red Sox yesterday, needing only six pitches to retire Mike Cameron, Josh Reddick and Marco Scutaro. That’s two Boston starters — Cameron and Scutaro — and one legitimate prospect on an elite team, on the road. That’s hardly minimal competition.

Though Cameron generally liked what he saw from Mejia, he was hardly wowed.

“He’s all right,” Cameron said. “I thought it wasn’t anything that was kind of a ooh-wow or anything.”

Added Cameron, “I think he could be a real [good setup] guy. But for the most part, it looked like he had pretty good velocity. It wasn’t anything overpowering or anything.”

Mejia has pitched in four games and tossed 8 1/3 brilliant innings, allowing just five hits and one run. He’s walked nobody. And he’s struck out eight — all part of his bid to possibly become the Mets’ eighth-inning answer.

Yesterday Mejia entered in the fifth inning, facing Cameron to start. He got ahead on a called-strike fastball, saw Cameron foul off another fastball, then used his curve to induce a groundout to third. Reddick then ripped the first pitch he saw to first base, where Daniel Murphy snared it for another out. Mejia then missed on a fastball to Scutaro before Scutaro grounded out to short on another fastball.

“I think he has a good arm,” Scutaro said, praising Mejia’s fastball, which ranged from 93 to 95 mph. “He had some late movement.”

Said Cameron, “He’s good. Maybe somebody else maybe saw something different. But I saw three pitches. I saw a fastball I thought was a little bit off because he has a little run to it. Then I fouled one off, and then he threw me the slow curve. He kept the ball down.

“Other than that, it wasn’t anything serious.”

It was the first time Mejia threw only one inning — in his other three outings, he logged 2 1/3 innings, three innings and two innings.

He expected to go further yesterday, but he said pitching coach Dan Warthen told him that was it.

It could be a sign the Mets are grooming the minor league starter for relief work, but Mejia said he threw a lot of warm-up pitches prior to coming in, and Manuel said Warthen wanted to also use Elmer Dessens and stretch out Tobi Stoner.

Either way, Manuel remained thrilled.

“Very, very encouraging to see a young pitcher that has struggled with command and control come into big-league camp and throw the amount of strikes that he’s thrown,” he said. “That’s impressive.”

mark.hale@nypost.com