Kyle Seager, Mike Zunino and Jean Segura all hit homers over the Crawford Boxes and James Paxton pitched into the eighth as Mariners opened their road swing with easy victory over defending champions.
HOUSTON — Perhaps those Crawford Boxes aren’t such a bad thing.
For years, that section of seats that shortens the left field in Minute Maid Park into haven for cheaply hit home runs has been a place where Mariners’ victory hopes go to die.
Seemingly every game, a high fly ball that would be caught back home at Safeco Field, carries over the wall in left for a costly homer.