The Red Sox (39-37) avoided a 2nd straight loss and took the series finale with a 3-1 win over the Mariners Wednesday afternoon at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The Sox have won 4 straight series and 5 of their last 6 series. The Sox have also won 7 of 8, 9 of 11 and 10 of 13. Marcelo Mayer and Trevor Story both homered in the win. Greg Weissert got a game-ending double play to end it and he notched his 3rd save of the season. 

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Crochet Day: Garrett Crochet made a start for the 11th time this season after a Red Sox loss in prior game and picked up his 7th win in Wednesday's series finale. Crochet gave up 1 earned run on 6 hits over 6 Innings of work. He walked no one and struck out 8.  The Red Sox are 4-0 in his last 4 outings. Crochet has turned in 14 Starts this season where he's allowed 2 Earned Runs or less.  

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Sox Pen: Garrett Crochet, Aroldis Chapman and Greg Weissert.  With the top 3 hitters due up for the Mariners in the 8th, Alex Cora used Aroldis Chapman, and he worked a 1-2-3 inning with 2 groundouts and a strike out. The Sox bullpen has worked 12.2 scoreless over the last 4 Games.  

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#'s of the Night: With Mayer and Story both going deep, the Sox are now 17-7 when hitting 2 or more Home Runs in a Game.  The Sox are 10-0 when Story goes deep this season. The Red Sox were 0-for-1 with Runners in Scoring Position in Wednesday's win and were 1-for-4 with Runners in Scoring Position over the 3 games in Seattle.  The Red Sox have scored 20 runs (45 Hits) over their last 8 games (7-1).  The Red Sox are now 15-9 in the finale game of a series on the season.

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What's On Tap?: After Thursday's off day, the Red Sox open up a 3-game series against Rafael Devers and the Giants Friday night in San Francisco.  The longest road trip of the season wraps up with 3 in Anaheim against the Angels starting next Monday.    

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