BOSTON — Travis Shaw hit two home runs and Rusney Castillo hit one to carry Boston to a 15-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night, just hours after Red Sox Manager John Farrell announced he’s taking a medical leave to treat lymphoma.
Shaw had a two-run homer and a solo shot, and Castillo’s was a two-run homer in Boston’s highest run total of the season. The Red Sox finished with a season-high 21 hits and scored in six of the eight innings they batted.
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WHO: Seattle Mariners (Hernandez 14-6) at Boston Red Sox (Miley 8-9)
WHEN: 1:35 p.m. Saturday
TELEVISION: NESN
Brock Holt and Pablo Sandoval each had three RBI with two doubles. Holt’s first drove in two runs to cap a six-run third inning.
Joe Kelly (5-6) limited the Mariners to one run and four hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Nelson Cruz went hitless in three at-bats, halting his 21-game hitting streak. It had tied Troy Tulowitzki for the majors’ longest this season.
Kyle Seager homered for Seattle, which had won eight of 12.
Mike Montgomery (4-5) gave up nine runs on 10 hits in just 2 1/3 innings.
Leading 3-1, Boston broke it open with its six-run third. Sandoval had a two-run double, Shaw followed with his two-run homer into the Red Sox bullpen, and Holt had a two-run double over the head of leaping center fielder Austin Jackson.
Holt’s second RBI double came in the fifth, Sandoval’s second run-scoring double came an inning later and Shaw homered in the eighth.
Trailing 1-0 in the first, David Ortiz had an RBI double and Castillo followed with his homer.
Seager homered in the first to put Seattle up 1-0.
NOTES: Red Sox RHP Steven Wright was placed on the seven-day concussion DL. He was hit in the neck by a batted ball during BP on Wednesday in Miami. … OF Castillo left with a bruised left foot after fouling a ball off it. … Cruz was the DH after missing the Mariners’ last game on Wednesday with neck spasms. “His neck is fine. Just going to balance it as much as I possibly can,” Manager Lloyd McClendon said.
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