Well, this was not a one-run game.
And that’s not the Seattle Mariners’ expertise.
This got out of hand in the third inning, with the Boston Red Sox leaving town with a 9-3 victory over the Mariners behind three home runs. Mike Leake was tagged for five runs – all with two outs – in the third with three on a rocket of a home run from Rafael Devers off the windows of the Hit It Here Cafe well past the right-field wall.
It put a sour note on the end of this otherwise electric Mariners’ homestand, this last game in front of 46,462 (the seventh-largest regular-season crowd in Safeco Field history).