Post-Game Notes

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SEATTLE MARINERS 11 (40-49), BOSTON RED SOX 4 (54-37)

Monday, July 8, 2013 Safeco Field Seattle, WA
FINAL Boston Red Sox Seattle Mariners First Pitch: 7:10 pm 1 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Time of Game: 3:21 5 2 1 6 7 8 9 R 0 0 2 0 4 3 4 1 X - 11 Temp: 76/ SW @ 3 MPH H E LOB 10 1 9 15 0 10 Attendance: 21,830

WP: Felix Hernandez (9-4, 2.69) LP: Jon Lester (8-5, 4.60) SV: None
HOME RUNS: Raul Ibanez PITCHING LINES: BOSTON Jon Lester (L) Alex Wilson Jose De La Torre SEATTLE Felix Hernandez (W) Oliver Perez Yoervis Medina NO. 22 PITCHER Jon Lester INN. 5 MOB 0 OUT 0 COUNT 0-2 DISTANCE/FIELD 356/RF

IP 5.0+ 1.1 1.2 IP 7.0 1.0 1.0

H 9 3 3 H 6 3 1

R 5 3 3 R 2 2 0

ER 5 3 3 ER 2 2 0

BB-I 2-0 1-0 2-0 BB-I 2-0 0-0 0-0

SO 6 1 4 SO 6 0 1

HR 1 0 0 HR 0 0 0

WP 0 1 0 WP 1 0 0

HB 0 0 1 HB 1 0 1

BK 0 0 0 BK 0 0 0

PITCHES/STRIKES 112/73 26/14 50/30 PITCHES/STRIKES 103/63 19/15 16/10

RED SOX NOTES: With the loss, the Red Sox are now 23-21 on the road, 11-9 against the AL West, 5-3 in their past 8 games, and 10-6 in their past 16. Jon Lester recorded his 5th loss of the season, allowing 5 earned runs on 9 hits with 6 strikeouts and 2 walks in 5.0+ innings pitched. Tonight marked the 6th time in 19 starts that Lester has given up 5 or more runs. o Is now 5-5 with a 5.73 ERA (40 ER/ 70.2 IP) in 12 starts on the road this season. David Ortiz (2x2, BB) has now hit safely in 16 of his past 19 games, dating back to 6/18is now batting .373 (25x67) with 8 runs scored, 6 doubles, 3 home runs, 12 RBI, and 11 walks during that spanrecorded his 24th multi-hit game of the seasonhas recorded a hit in 14 of his last 15 games at Safeco Field. MARINERS NOTES:
With the win, the Mariners are now 22-22 at home, 8-6 against the AL East, 5-2 in their past 7 games, and 6-6 in their past 12 games. Tonight marked the first time since 5/13/05 that the Mariners scored 10+ runs in a game against the Red Sox. The Mariners have now homered in 16 consecutive games, dating back to 6/20 (27 home runs in that stretch). With Justin Smoaks double in the 4th inning, the Mariners snapped a 0x25 stretch with men in scoring position. Coming into tonight, Seattle was 2-for-its-last-32 with men in scoring position. The Mariners 6 hits with men in scoring position tonight tied their season-high (also 04/05 @ CWS) Felix Hernandez recorded his 9th win of the season (2nd time in his career to win 9 games before the All-Star break, also: 2009), allowing 2 earned runs on 6 hits with 6 strikeouts and 2 walks in 7.0 innings pitched. o Induced 1 double play tonightis now tied with Lucas Harrell (HOU) for the Major League lead in groundball

double plays with 18. Logged his 14th quality start of the season, also the 51st quality start of the season for the Mariners and their 5th in their past 7 games. o Improved to 100-25 in 166 career starts when the Mariners give him 2 or more runs of support. Raul Ibanez (2x5, R, HR, 2 RBI) hit his team-high 22nd home run (8th in last 13 games), extending his hitting streak to 13 games. o Ibaez 13-game hitting streak is tied for 2nd-longest of his 18-year career (also had 13-game streaks in 2003 with KC & 2009 with PHI)career-high is 18 games with Philadelphia in 2010is now batting .363 (20x55) with 12 runs scored, 1 double, 1 triple, 8 home runs, 15 RBI, and 5 walks over his past 13 games, since 6/22. o The home run was his 8th this season off a left-handed pitcher (zero off LHP during the 2012 regular season), also the third HR this season on an 0-2 pitch. o Was Ibanez 12th (of 22) HR this season to give the Mariners a lead (7) or tie the game (5)since June 1, 9 of his 13 HR have either tied the game or put the Mariners ahead. Kyle Seager (1x3, 2 R, 2 BB) extended his hitting streak to 8 gamesis now batting .483 (14x29) with 8 runs scored, 2 doubles, 3 home runs, 7 RBI, and 5 walks during that span. Justin Smoak (3x4, 2 R, 2 2B, 2 RBI, BB) is now batting .339 (19x56) with 8 runs scored, 4 doubles, 4 home runs, 9 RBI, and 8 walks since coming off the DL on 6/18tied season-high with 3 hits (also 07/03 @ TEX). Michael Saunders (2x4, 2 R, 2 2B, 3 RBI, BB) posted his 2nd 3-RBI game of the season (also: 05/04 @ TOR). NEXT GAME Boston Red Sox vs. Seattle Mariners Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 7:10 pm PT (ROOT Sports) RHP Allen Webster (1-2, 7.88) vs. RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (7-4, 2.60)
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Post-Game Quotes
RED SOX MANAGER JOHN FARRELL: On what he saw from Lester: He had very good stuff, a couple of pitches that didnt get to the intended spot, the 1-2 cutter to Smoak for the double and the 0-2 cutter that Ibanez hit out of the ballpark. The 40-pitch 4th inning took a lot out of his night tonight, but still even when they bunched some hits together, a couple walks mixed in, were still in a one-run ball game. But the pitch count got him and [we] had to make a move in that 6th inning. Is it tough to have the Mariners bottom third of the order do so much damage? Yeah, they put together a number of good at-bats. I cant say it was a let down of any kind of focus or concentration, but clearly, in a couple of those spots, there were some base hits, particularly ahead in the count, that Im sure Jon would like to have back. Did you think the strike zone was a distraction to Lester? I cant say it was a distraction, because inside of the long inning, it was still just a two-run inning. He made a number of good pitches that were borderline. He didnt get the call, but I thought it was a pretty consistent zone on both sides. Again, I kind of go back to the double by Smoak. We scratch back, tie it up, and then the leadoff home run on the 0-2 pitch kind of set the tone for the remainder of the game.