BOSTON RED SOX 1 (58-48) vs.

SEATTLE MARINERS 3 (54-52)

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Safeco Field
LINESCORE
Boston Red Sox
Seattle Mariners
First Pitch: 7:11 pm

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Time of Game: 2:16

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Temp: 72, NW 5 MPH

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Attendance: 24,494

WP: Hisashi Iwakuma (12-7, 3.99) LP: Rick Porcello (14-3, 3.46) Save: Edwin Diaz (2)
HOME RUNS:
Nelson Cruz (SEA)

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Rick Porcello

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DISTANCE
441ft/LF

Mike Zunin0 (SEA)

Rick Porcello

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427ft/CF

Adam Lind (SEA)

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Rick Porcello

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356ft/RF

MARINERS NOTES:
Hisashi Iwakuma won his 12th game of the season, his 11th in 14 starts since May 20.
o His 11 wins since May 20th are the most in the Majors.
o Since May 20 is 11-3 with a 3.77 ERA (37 ER, 88.1 IP) with 65 strikeouts in 14 starts.
Hisashi Iwakuma beat Boston for the 2nd time this season (also: June 17 at Boston).
o Prior to 2016, he was 0-1 with a 10.20 ERA (17 ER, 15.0 IP) in 4 starts against the Red Sox.
Mike Zunino hit his 5th home run of the season and has homered in back-to-back games.
o 4th time in his career to hit home runs in consecutive games (last: July 27 & 29, 2014)
o 8 of his 10 hits this season have gone for extra bases (5 HR, 3 2B).
Nelson Cruz (1x3, R, HR, RBI) is hitting .320 (16x50) over his last 14 games with 5 runs, 4 home runs, 11 RBI
and 5 walks (7/17-c).
o In the 57 games hes played as a DH this season, Cruz is hitting .316 (68x215) with 39 runs, 8 doubles,
18 home runs and 50 RBI.
o In his career against Boston, Cruz is hitting .320 (87x272) with 47 runs, 18 doubles, 2 triples, 19 home
runs, 54 RBI and 30 walks.
Adam Lind hit his 16th home run of the season, his 15th in his last 56 games since May 14.
o Hes hit 11 home runs in his last 27 home games, including 3 in the last 5 home games.
Seattle is 12-6 in their last 18 home games (since June 24)began the season 15-18 at home.
Seattle hit 3 home runs, 19th time this season to hit 3+ home runs in a game.
o Entered the game T5th in the Majors in 3+ home run games.
Mike Zunino (2x3, R, HR, RBI) is hitting .286 (10x35) with 5 runs, 3 doubles, 5 home runs, 7 RBI and 5 walks
since being recalled from AAA Tacoma on 7/20.
Edwin Diaz has struck out 17.67 batter per 9.0 innings (53 K, 27.0 IP) this yearhe has 21 strikeouts in his last
10.0 innings pitched (since 7/10).
RED SOX NOTES:
Rick Porcello pitched 8.0 innings tonight and gave up 3 runs on 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 8.
o Porcello snapped his 6 game winning streak tonighthis last loss came on 5/17 against the Royals.
He went 13 straight starts without a loss.
o He has now tossed a quality start in each of his last 5 road outingshe is 2-1 with a 2.50 ERA (10 ER,
36.0 IP) with 30 strikeouts and 7 walks in those games started.
o In 4 career starts at Safeco Field, Porcello is 3-1 with a 2.22 ERA (7 ER, 28.1 IP) with 23 strikeouts and 4
walks.
o Porcello has pitched at least 5.0 innings in each of his 29 starts since 8/26/15, recording 6.0+ IP in 26 of
those games and 7.0+ IP in 13 of them.
Mookie Betts (1x4) extended his hitting streak to 5 games with a single in the 8th inning.
Andrew Benintendi (2x3) had his first Major League hit tonight with a single off of Hisashi Iwakuma in the 3rd
inning.
Dating back to Aug. 23, 2014, Brock Holt has reached base safely in 8 straight games vs. Seattle, including 7
games with at least 1 hitduring this stretch he is batting .390 (16x41) with 9 runs scored, 5 doubles, 1 triple, 6
RBI, 5 walks and 2 stolen bases.
Aaron Hill has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games on the road, dating back to July 3during this stretch he is
batting .317 (13x41) with 7 runs scored, 1 double, 2 home runs, 6 RBI and 2 walks.
Over the last 12 road games, Red Sox pitchers have posted a 2.64 ERA (33 ER, 112.1 IP).
o In those games, Bostons bullpen has allowed only 3 ER in 22.2 IP (1.19 ERA).
NEXT GAME
Seattle Mariners vs. Boston Red Sox Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 7:10 p.m. (ROOT Sports)
LHP Ariel Miranda (0-0, 13.50)
vs.
LHP Drew Pomeranz (0-2, 7.53)

RED SOX MANAGER JOHN FARRELL:

On Iwakumas performance tonight.
He kept us off stride with a lot of splits, sliders, cutters, elevated fastballs on occasion and he out of the middle of the
plate. For a guy who is certainly capable of pitching like he did tonight, weve had success against him in the past and it
was his turn tonight. He was in command the entire time he was on the mound.
On Porcello giving up 3 home runs.
With the exception of three swings of the bat and three pitches, it was another strong outing from Rick. Unfortunately its
on a night when Iwakuma is as strong as he is. It looked like to me that two fastballs that found the bigger part of the plate
to Cruz and Zunino and then a 2-0 changeup that Lind was able to keep his hands back just enough to get out of here. On
a night when we are scuffling to get anything going until the latter innings, in this ballpark those three runs played big.

NEXT GAME
Seattle Mariners vs. Boston Red Sox Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 7:10 p.m. (ROOT Sports)
LHP Ariel Miranda (0-0, 13.50)
vs.
LHP Drew Pomeranz (0-2, 7.53)