Mariners roll to decisive win over Red Sox

BOSTON — With Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, and its constant speculation, rumor-mongering and combination of excitement and anxiety officially over, the focus returned to the Seattle Mariners’ quest to win their first division title since 2001 and not the potential trades that could make it become reality.

As Hickory head coach Norman Dale famously said in Hoosiers, “This is your team.”

Well, sort of.

The Mariners are still without J.P. Crawford and Julio Rodriguez, who are both on the injured list, and reliever J.T. Chargois, who was acquired in a trade with the Marlins earlier in the day, has yet to report.

But any success will essentially have to come from the players within the organization over the next 53 games.

Tuesday night was a step in that direction.

With a lineup featuring their latest acquisition, first baseman Justin Turner, the Mariners rolled to a decisive 10-6 victory over the Red Sox.

A night after being drubbed 14-6, the Mariners reached double-digit runs on 10 hits, highlighted by Dylan Moore’s three-run double in a five-run fifth inning.

Seattle got a quality start from Luis Castillo, who pitched six innings, allowing three runs on six hits with a walk and four strikeouts.

His three runs allowed came in the third inning. Pitching with a 1-0 lead, Castillo issued a one-out walk to Wilyer Abreu and gave up a single to Masataka Yoshida. Facing the always-dangerous Rafael Devers, Castillo got up 0-2 on a called first-pitch strike and a swing and miss on a fastball at the top of the strike zone. He went back to that same pitch for the strikeout, but Devers was able to get on top of hit and sent a fly ball over the Green Monster for a three-run opposite-field homer.

Castillo came back to retire the next two batter to end the inning and he’d work the next three scoreless allowing only two hits.

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Mariners 10, Red Sox 6

Umpires—Home, Jansen Visconti; First, Cory Blaser; Second, John Bacon; Third, Andy Fletcher.

T—2:49. A—36,592 (37,755).