Mariners leave Boston bummed

BOSTON (AP) - The Seattle Mariners' visit to Boston was just two games. It probably felt much longer.

The Mariners were shut out by the Red Sox 5-0 on Tuesday. Seattle finished with just four hits as Boston starter Josh Beckett struck out a season-high nine batters.

Seattle had a total of 12 hits in the in the short series and was outscored 11-1.

"We've got to do a better job of working it on down the line and trying to get the ball rolling from one hitter to the next and on down," manager Eric Wedge said.

There was no rolling Tuesday against Beckett, who redeemed himself less than a week after being booed off the mound by pitching his best game of the season.

Beckett scattered four hits over seven innings before being pulled as a steady rain started to fall late in the afternoon.

The game started with Beckett striking out Dustin Ackley and seemed to only get worse for the Mariners, who struck out twice in the second and three times in the third.

"Give him credit. He did his job," said Justin Smoak, who felt he was robbed of a home run in the second. "But we feel like we could have done a little better than what we did."

Smoak hit a long shot to the right-field corner in the second, but it was ruled a foul ball. After a video review, it was still ruled foul, although Smoak felt from his view that it went over the pole, not to the right of it.

"I think it always makes a difference if you can jump out to a lead and then work from there," Wedge said.