Red Sox 6, Mariners 2

 

The Boston Red Sox break a four-game losing streak with a win in Seattle over the AL West-leading Mariners. 

Celeb Durbin homered in the second inning, a solo shot into deep left center. After what was starting to look like a 1-0 game, the Sox scored four runs in the seventh inning on a wild pitch, an RBI single, and a sac fly. Mayer added another RBI in the ninth, bringing Durbin home from second.

Suarez one-hit the Mariners through 6⅔ innings, striking out five along the way. The bullpen also kept Seattle to only one hit through 2⅓ innings - unfortunately, that one hit was a two-run homer off Tommy Kahnle in the bottom of the ninth.

Our old friend, Rob Refsnyder (.137), who played for the Red Sox from 2022-2025, went 0-4 last night in the Mariners' lead-off position, with one strike out. 

Doesn't mean shit, though - the Yankees won last night and the Sox remain 15½ back in the AL East.

Young Connelly Early (5-5, 3.81) takes the mound tonight in his first start against the Mariners. Seattle will counter with Emerson Hancock (5-3, 3.28), who struck out seven Boston batters while giving up two runs on five hits in an April 23, 2025 game in Fenway.