BOSTON — Trevor Story had three home runs, four hits and seven RBIs as the Boston Red Sox overturned a four-run deficit and beat the Seattle Mariners 12-6 on Thursday.
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Story hit a pair of two-run homers and one more three-run shot. That last home run came in the eighth inning.
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He also had a go-ahead single in the sixth inning, helped by a wild throw. In his first season of a $140 million, six-year deal, Story had hit just two homers in 32 games before Thursday.
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Jackie Bradley Jr. added an RBI double that smashed the ball into the “Green Monster,” and Boston scored nine unanswered runs for its fifth win in its last seven games.
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Tanner Houck (3-3) pitched four scoreless innings of relief for Boston after Seattle punished starter Rich Hill for the first two innings to take a 4-0 lead.
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The loss went to rookie George Kirby (0-1).
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For the Mariners, the Dominican Julio Rodríguez 5-3 with one run scored and one produced. The Venezuelans Eugenio Suárez 5-2 with two runs scored, Luis Torrens 4-1.
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For the Red Sox, Puerto Ricans Kiké Hernández 4-0, Christian Vázquez 4-1 with an RBI. The Dominican Rafael Devers 5-1. Mexican Alex Verdugo 5-3 with four runs scored.
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