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Seattle stings Price, stuns Boston in 5-run 8th
- Updated: August 3, 2016
SEATTLE — After being silenced by David Price for seven innings, the Mariners pulled off a stunning comeback in the bottom of the eighth en route to a 5-4 victory over the Red Sox on Tuesday night at Safeco Field.
Robinson Cano unloaded for a three-run homer to right, spoiling the Boston debut of lefty reliever Fernando Abad and giving the Mariners their first lead of the game. Seattle trailed, 4-0, and had tallied just three hits off Price when the five-run inning started.
“You’ve seen it for a long time. He’s a pretty special player. that was pretty impressive,” Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia said of Cano.
Mike Zunino created momentum with a solo homer to left. Price gave up four straight hits to start the inning before walking off the mound with a 4-2 lead. Matt Barnes came on in relief and struck out Seth Smith.
“You are facing, I would say, one of the best lefties in the game,” Cano said of Price, “who was under control until that inning.”
Red Sox manager John Farrell then went to Abad, who was acquired just one day earlier from the Twins. Cano belted the fifth pitch of the at-bat — a curveball — high and deep to right for a three-run shot that had a projected distance of 398 feet, according to Statcast™.
“Abad, who’s had such good success against Cano, is working through the at-bat in good shape,” said Farrell. “He gets him to chase a couple breaking balls. He missed with one over the middle of the plate, and that’s the difference in this one, unfortunately.”
For the Mariners, it was a sweet victory after squandering late-inning leads to lose their previous two games. It was a tough defeat for the third-place Red Sox, who are two games behind the Orioles in the American League East.
Lefty Wade LeBlanc turned in a quality start for Seattle, allowing six hits and three runs over six innings. Edwin Diaz, who replaced Steve …
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