SEATTLE -- On a night their best pitcher got bounced early, the Mariners still found a way to pull out another one-run win Friday as Denard Span's two-run double in the bottom of the eighth lifted Seattle to a 7-6 comeback over the Red Sox at Safeco Field.
James Paxton lasted just 2 1/3 innings -- his shortest start of the season -- after giving up six runs in the third, with two errors not helping his cause.
But the Mariners climbed back from that 6-3 deficit as rookie right-hander Rob Whalen stemmed the tide with four scoreless innings of relief with just one hit in his season debut.