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Article: Mariners 11, Red Sox 6
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JIM COUR AP Sports Writer
AP Online
04-04-1998
SEATTLE (AP) _ Three games. Twenty-seven runs. Ten home runs. And finally, a victory.
The Seattle Mariners haven't skipped a beat since they set a major league record with 264 homers last season. All they need now is to get some halfway decent pitching.
``I know I don't have to go out there and drive in 200 runs,'' Ken Griffey Jr. said Friday night after hitting one of four home runs by the Mariners in an 11-6 win over the Boston Red Sox.
``With this lineup, all I need to do is go out and relax and play,'' Griffey added.
Griffey, Jay Buhner and Glenallen Hill homered in Seattle's six-run fifth inning that gave the Mariners a 9-3 ...