Boston Red Sox vs. Seattle Mariners

“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”, Farrell said afterward.

Missing time is nothing new for Sandoval, who missed 99 games between the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the San Francisco Giants, as B/R’s Adam Wells notes. “We got our butts kicked”, Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said.

“He left a lot of balls up in the middle of the plate”, he said. “Just no deception at all”.

Cano had five hits and three RBIs and Nelson Cruz hit a solo shot in the seventh for his MLB-leading 36th home run, extending his career-high on-base streak to 27 games.

Ranking 18th, Seattle is in the bottom half of the league for its on-base plus slugging percentage (.704).

Travis Shaw hit two home runs and Rusney Castillo hit one in the aftermath of Farrell announcing he’d taken a medical leave to treat lymphoma.

It was discovered earlier in the week when Farrell underwent hernia surgery, and he was optimistic while making the announcement. He’s planning on being back for spring training.

It has been a struggle all year for the Red Sox, but an announcement Friday served as a powerful reminder that these games we love to watch and cover are never really that serious.

But now the Red Sox are free falling and looking at consecutive last-place finishes.

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the Red Sox opened up the checkbook to sign Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez during the past MLB offseason.

Salvador Perez homered and doubled in a six-run second inning while Johnny Cueto pitched eight impressive innings as the Kansas City Royals defeated the Los Angeles Angels. He had a strong outing, going seven innings and only allowing two runs on four hits. They slapped Hernandez with one of the worst recorded losses of his career. Owens was able to limit damage with men on base as the Mariners went 3 for 13 win runners in scoring position.

Texas right fielder Shin-Soo Choo was 3-for-4 with a double, his 15th home run and three RBIs.

Beltran, whose pinch-hit, three-run drive in the eighth inning Friday night gave the Yankees a 4-3 win, homered for the second straight at-bat when he connected in the first. He notched eight strikeouts and picked up his ninth win of the season.

“It looked like it took a pretty good hop when it hit the dirt on the infield”, Zunino said. I’m a fan of him, and also a good friend. What began as a normal morning for the Virginia native (Bradley Jr. was spotted withdrawing money from a Kenmore Square ATM just a few hours before first pitch), quickly morphed into an afternoon forever cemented in his memory bank.

Mariners: Cruz was the DH after missing the last game on Wednesday with neck spasms.

Ventura had three small pieces of skin scraped off his face and neck. “Any time we do it and they see something, I’m always, ‘Go ahead and take care of it, ‘ right when you do”.

Red Sox: RHP Steven Wright was put on the seven-day concussion DL. He was hit in the neck by a batted ball during BP on Wednesday in Miami.

And it involved the abrupt dethroning of ” Seattle Mariners starter “King” Felix Hernandez.