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The Mariners never really showed up on offense today, dropping a 5-0 decision to the Boston Red Sox in a game that felt over when David Ortiz hit a solo homer in the third to open the scoring.

As it turned out, that was all the runs the Red Sox would need.

The Mariners managed just four hits in seven innings off Josh Beckett, who had a 5.97 earned run average coming in. They had struck out six times the first three innings and nine times by the fifth.

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Boston leads it 4-0 as we enter the seventh inning. The Mariners don’t have an error today, but have looked lousy on defense and it cost them a run in the fifth inning when shortstop Munenori Kawasaki forgot to touch second while attempting to turn a double play. Instead, David Ortiz — who’d beaten the infield shift with a bunt, of all things, moments earlier — was safe at second, took third on a wild pitch and scored on a single to left by Will Middlebrooks off Charlie Furbush.

Furbush took over from Blake Beavan after four laborious innings from him.

The offense has gone AWOL today and the few hits they have had haven’t come in any key situations. Of the three hits by Seattle, Ichiro has two of them — an infield chopper and a broken bat blooper.

2:42 p.m.: Two more runs for the Red Sox in the fourth inning to take a 3-0 lead. Well, at least it’s not 5-0 this time, but the M’s have got to do a better job at finishing off rallies. They finally got to Josh Beckett for a couple of hits in the top of the fourth to put two on with one out. But then Jesus Montero hit a flyball to medium left field for the second out and Kyle Seager grounded out to end the threat.

Boston saw Cody Ross draw a one-out walk against Blake Beavan, followed by a Daniel Nava single that put runners at the corners. Mike Aviles then doubled to right to bring one run home and a groundout to the right side by Ryan Sweeney plated the other.

2:17 p.m.: We’re getting to the point where the Mariners might as well just walk David Ortiz once it gets to a three-ball count with a pitcher on the mound throwing nothing but fastballs for strikes. Blake Beavan saw the count go full, tried to sneak a fastball by Ortiz for a strike and saw it crushed into the right field seats.

Boston leads 1-0 after three innings.

Josh Beckett has six strikeouts in three innings and has whiffed four in a row as we begin the fourth. No, he hasn’t allowed a baserunner yet. Time for an Ichiro infield single this inning.

1:57 p.m.: Blake Beavan has allowed four baserunners in two innings, but made the pitches he needed to at key moments to keep this a scoreless game as we head to the third. The Mariners have gone six up, six down with three strikeouts against Josh Beckett so far, though Justin Smoak nearly had a home run to right field in the second.

The ball was ruled foul, Eric Wedge went out to argue and umpires convened and went to video review. It took quite a while, but they finally ruled it foul. I had trouble tracking the ball on video replay and I’m sure they did as well.

1:07 p.m.: We’ve got Blake Beavan going against Josh Beckett this afternoon in the finale of this two-game series. They just held a pre-game ceremony to honor Tim Wakefield, who retired last February after a career that included 17 seasons with the Red Sox.

Beckett won’t be nearly as popular with the crowd if he can’t throw strikes early.

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Once again, the Mariners had a starting pitcher bury them by the fourth inning and the predictable result was a 6-1 loss.

Jason Vargas wore this one appropriately, admitting he had just one pitch — a fastball — working for him all night. When that happens, the opposing hitters just have to sit back and wait for him to center a few because they know his changeup isn’t going to land for a strike unless he grooves it.

But Vargas had some help tonight. His offense got zero going against Puyallup native Jon Lester the first five innings and by the time they managed anything, they were too far behind for it to matter.

So, a bit of a team effort there.

Lester needed just 55 pitches to get through the first five innings. He allowed just an Ichiro infield single off his glove in the fourth inning during that span and the Mariners couldn’t hit a ball out of the infield until a couple of flyouts in the fifth.

Yeah, that’s not going to win many games.

Neither is being down 5-0 by the fourth for the second time in three days.

Vargas had a Fenway Park double skied off the Green Monster in left field by David Ortiz for the game’s first run. But an ensuing double by Adrian Gonzalez was ripped down the line for another run.

Then, in the second, we’d noted in the game blog that a pair of infield singles off Vargas were scorched rather hard. Finally, in the fourth, the first homer by Daniel Nava this season and a second, rocket blast by Kelly Shoppach were legit long balls.

“I was really more upset with the fourth inning more than anything,” Vargas said. “I had a chance to keep us in the ballgame, even with mediocre stuff.

“But I let the bottom part of their lineup get ahead of me and it kind of put us out of the ballgame right there.”
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Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz follows through on a solo home run against the Seattle Mariners in the third inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. …

David Ortiz homered, singled and drove in two runs to lead the Red Sox to a 7-5 win, snapping the Philliesa six-game winning streak last night in Philadelphia. Mike Aviles, Will Middlebrooks and Jarrod Saltalamacchia also homered for Boston, which won for the seventh time in nine games. Saltalamacchia went…

David Ortiz homered, singled and drove in two runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 7-5 win over Philadelphia, snapping the Phillies’ six-game winning streak Saturday night.

David Ortiz homered, singled and drove in two runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 7-5 win over Philadelphia, snapping the Phillies’ six-game winning streak Saturday night.

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