Robinson Cano’s three-run homer off reliever Fernando Abad gives Seattle the lead and Edwin Diaz gets three strikeouts in the ninth for his first save.
Boston starter David Price departed to a standing ovation, one of the few times on Tuesday night that the sparse weeknight crowd at Safeco Field rose as one.
The invading Red Sox hoard was tipping its collective hat to a mostly dominant seven innings of work. Mariners fans were applauding their team’s first sustained rally of the night, a late surge that threatened to turn the game on its head.
Catcher Mike Zunino had led off the bottom half of the eighth inning with a solo home run to left.