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The Mets offense, quiet all too often this season, was especially silent against the hapless White Sox for most of Monday’s series opener.

Unable to buy a hit with runners in scoring position, they tied the game in the eighth on a Juan Soto sacrifice fly before Francisco Lindor won it in the bottom of the ninth with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to right.

The 2-1 victory was the third straight and fourth in five games for the Mets and it came against a White Sox team in the midst of another noncompetitive season.

They are mired in last place in the AL Central and well on their way to a third straight 100-loss season.

“We have belief and confidence that things will turn and we saw it today,” Clay Holmes said of the team’s 13th comeback win of the season. “It was nice to grind it out.”

Tyrone Taylor opened the ninth inning with a double to left-center and Jeff McNeil was walked intentionally to bring up Luis Torrens, who entered in the ninth as a defensive replacement after Francisco Alvarez was removed for a pinch runner.

Torrens singled to left — the only Mets hit with runners in scoring position — to load the bases for Lindor, who ended it on the first pitch he saw from right-hander Steven Wilson.

“He’s aggressive with good pitches to hit,” Carlos Mendoza said of Lindor. “That’s what great players do. He didn’t waste any time. He was ready to go on the first pitch and the game was over.”

Chicago, which went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position, entered the game just 5-21 on the road, but ex-Met Adrian Houser blanked them for six-plus innings in his second straight excellent outing with the White Sox.

He had a 5.03 ERA with Triple-A Round Rock before he was released and signed a minor league deal with the White Sox.

Houser then went out and pitched six scoreless innings against Seattle last week in his White Sox debut.

He continued that success into Monday, allowing just one base runner until the sixth inning and retiring 14 in a row after Brandon Nimmo’s double with one out in the first.

Lindor finally snapped the streak with a grounder through the right side of the infield with two outs in the sixth.

Nimmo then struck out to end the inning.

Holmes was solid again, limiting the White Sox to one run over 5 ²/₃ innings.

He gave up a run in the top of the fourth after a leadoff walk to Mike Tauchman was followed by a double to center by Miguel Vargas.

With runners on second and third and no one out, Andrew Benintendi’s sacrifice fly to left knocked in Tauchman for the game’s first run.

Holmes ran into trouble again in the sixth.

After retiring the first two batters of the inning, Holmes allowed an infield single by Benintendi that Pete Alonso couldn’t handle at first.

Luis Robert Jr. also reached on an infield hit before Holmes walked Joshua Palacios to load the bases.

José Buttó entered to face Quero and got an inning-ending groundout to keep it a one-run game.

Buttó was the first of four Mets relievers who combined to toss 3 ¹/₃ no-hit, scoreless innings, although they combined to walk four.

The Mets squandered a bases-loaded chance in the seventh when McNeil struck out, but they tied the game in the eighth.

Alvarez opened the inning with a single to left.

After Lindor whiffed, Nimmo singled to right, sending pinch-runner Luisangel Acuña to third with one out.

Soto tied the game with a sacrifice fly to left, with Nimmo moving up to second.

Alonso was walked intentionally and Marte was hit by an 0-2 pitch to load the bases.

Brett Baty lined to right to keep the game tied, but after Edwin Díaz cruised through the top of the ninth, the Mets won it in the bottom of the inning.