 gave up four hits, walked one and ended his day by striking out Mike Zunino swinging on a 100-mph fastball. Joe Kelly and Matt Barnes each pitched an inning to complete the four-hit shutout.Mostly mixing an overpowering fastball in the mid-to-upper 90s with a sharp-breaking slider in the low 80s, the lanky Sale was working quickly and dominant from the start.He struck out 10 of the first 16 batters he faced, including the side in order in the fifth - the last two swinging on 99 mph fastballs.Jackie Bradley Jr. had three singles and Rafael Devers added an RBI double for Boston, which struggled offensively in a loss Saturday after putting up 14 runs and 20 hits in the series opener.The Mariners have lost six of seven games and fell to 1-5 on their 10-game East Coast trip.Marco Gonzales (7-5) gave up five runs on seven hits in six innings, striking out six without a walk.The Red Sox broke ahead 3-0 in the fifth on the double by Devers, and sacrifice flies by Sandy Leon and Mookie Betts after Xander Bogaerts doubled leading off and Eduardo Nunez singled.Moreland's homer into the center-field batter's eye made it 5-0 an inning later.Gonzales was sharp early, spotting a fastball that broke into the low 90s along with a changeup, curveball and cutter. He had the hitters off-balance, causing a lot of weak or early swings until they began waiting on pitches. He had all six Ks through the first four innings.Nelson Cruz had a two-out triple in the fourth, but was stranded when Ryon Healy struck out on a slider in the dirt.TRAINER'S ROOMMariners: SS Jean Segura missed his fourth straight game with a right forearm infection.Red Sox: RF Mookie Betts (sickness) and SS Bogaerts (strained left index finger) both returned to the lineup after missing Saturday's game. ''Good to have them both back in the lineup,'' manager Alex Cora said after his club was held to three singles in the first eight innings Saturday. . Cora also said that LHP Drew Pomeranz (10-day DL, left biceps tendinitis) will ramp up this week if things go well in his next bullpen session.GOOD GLOVEBetts made a semi-leaping grab on Mitch Haniger's fly ball to end the sixth with his back nearly up against the bullpen wall.HOT BATCruz went 1 for 4, finishing 8 for 13 in the series with two homers, seven RBIs and four runs scored.SERIES EDGEBoston won the season series, 4-3, which could come into play for homefield if the teams tied for the AL's Wild Card spot.UP NEXTMariners: RHP Felix Hernandez (6-6, 5.14 ERA) faces Orioles RHP Andrew Cashner (2-8, 4.72) on Monday when Seattle opens the final stop of its trip with the first of a four games in Baltimore.Red Sox: After and a day off Monday, LHP David Price (8-5, 3.81) goes for Boston against LHP John Lamb (0-0, 5.40) when the Angles come to Fenway Park for a three-game series beginning Tuesday.---More baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball)
TICKETSTICKETSMariners try to win series vs. Red Sox 2h ago• 3 min read BOSTON -- Their five-game losing streak over, the Seattle Mariners send seven-game winner Marco Gonzales to the mound against Red Sox ace Chris Sale in the deciding game of a three-game series at Fenway Park Sunday.The Mariners handed Boston left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez only his second loss in 11 decisions with Saturday night's 7-2 victory and now ask Gonzales to shake off his last start and butt heads with Sale in the finale.After allowing just six runs in 38 1/3 innings in his previous six starts, Gonzales yielded six and was reached for three home runs in losing to the New York Yankees in the Bronx Tuesday night.Sale has struck out 30 in 21 innings over his last three starts but is just 1-1 over that span. His team is just 8-8 in his 16 starts and he is 6-4 with a 2.74 ERA and 140 strikeouts in 102 innings in 2018.The skinny left-hander is 5-1 with a 2.09 ERA in 10 games, eight starts, lifetime against the Mariners.Gonzales will face the Red Sox for the first time. Boston is just 9-9 in games started by lefties this season.Mike Leake pitched eight shutout innings to avenge last Sunday's loss to the Red Sox and defeat Boston for the first time in his career. Closer Edwin Diaz, who hadn't pitched in a week, worked a shaky ninth and allowed two runs, but that couldn't taint the evening for the visitors, who took a 14-10 loss in the opener Friday."Unbelievable and really big for our ballclub for him to step up tonight," Seattle manager Scott Servais said. "Exactly what we needed for someone to shut it down and steady it." Said Leake: "When you have a five-game losing streak, yeah, you want to end it." The Red Sox, who remained a game behind the losing New York Yankees atop the American League East, fell to 13-2 in Rodriguez's 5 starts.While Mookie Betts (illness) was out of the Boston lineup, both teams were without their shortstops Saturday night.Seattle's Jean Segura missed his third straight game with an arm infection, had it drained by a Boston doctor Friday and hopes to play Sunday."It was bad," Segura said before Saturday's game. "It was hurting me, especially when I was swinging. I couldn't extend my arm. It doesn't feel right when you swing and feel pinching, like somebody is trying to grab your bat. As a player, you don't want that feeling."If it feels good, I'll play. But you can't play around with an infection. I have to wait til it recovers." Boston's Xander Bogaerts, suffered a sprained left index finger diving into second base Friday night and sat out Saturday. He was due for a game off Saturday, anyway, and the hope and Betts will both play Sunday."How's Xander? He's day to day," manager Alex Cora said. "We'll see. (We'll) probably stay away from him tomorrow. We were looking for an off-day, and it just came up now. Hopefully he'll be ready to play on Sunday." After the game, Cora said he hoped both would be ready to play"They're going to show up early tomorrow, see where they at," Cora said. "So, we'll go from there." The Mariners, 3-4 against Boston in the last 10 days, remained three games behind the Houston Astros in the AL West.The current Seattle roster is hitting a combined .200 against Sale.Nelson Cruz is 8-for-26 (.308) with two homers and four RBIs against Sale, but Mike Zunino is 0-for-7. Kyle Seager is 1-for-16 (.063), Ryon Healy and Guillermo Heredia both 1-for-6 (.167) and Andrew Romine 3-for-14 (.214).Triston Casas, the Red Sox top pick in the recent draft, took batting practice in the same group of J. D. Martinez before Saturday night's game.
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