Sale Shelled in Red Sox Season Opener – Red Sox Fall 12-4

It wasn't the way the defending 2018 World Series Champions wanted to start the 2019 season, falling to the Seattle Mariners in Seattle on Thursday night. Red Sox pitchers allowed 5 homers, including 3 by the starter, Chris Sale.

Sale lasted only 3 innings, giving up 7 runs, all earned. Of the 6 hits off of Sale, 3 were homers. He struck out  6 and walked 2. Hector Velazquez couldn't stop the bleeding allowing 3 runs in 2.1 innings on 4 hits. Tyler Thornburg, pitching the 7th inning allowed the final 2 runs on 2 hits and a homer.

The good news for Boston is that they banged out 11 hits. Mookie Betts was 3-5 batting 2nd in the order. The new lead-off hitter Andrew Benintendi was 1-4 with 2 RBI's. JD Martinez was 2-5. Christian Vazquez, Xander Bogaerts and Eduardo Nunez each had a double.

The Red Sox are now 0-1 while Seattle is 3-0. Boston will send Nathan Eovaldi to the mound on Friday night while Seattle counters with Yusei Kikuchi. The pregame starts at 9:10 with the first pitch at 10:10 on AM 1370 WDEA.