Yusei Kikuchi continued to struggle in his major league rookie season, taking his eighth loss after yielding a career-high four home runs on Friday in the Seattle Mariners' 10-2 defeat to the Houston Astros.Kikuchi (4-8) allowed six runs over four innings against the American League West leaders, surrendering long balls to Yordan Alvarez, Jake Marisnick, Martin Maldonado and Jose Altuve. The Japanese starter gave up nine hits and struck out just one of the 21 batters he faced.After upping his total to 28, Kikuchi is now tied with Houston's Justin Verlander for most homers allowed this seaso…READ FULL ARTICLE