Yusei Kikuchi gave up two homers in his first career start at the newly renamed T-Mobile Park as the Seattle Mariners blew a lead in a disastrous ninth inning and lost 7-6 to the Boston Red Sox on Friday.Kikuchi went six innings and had a chance to be credited with the win, but Mitch Moreland's pinch-hit, three-run homer in the top of the ninth spoiled the home debut for the Japanese rookie and instead gave the Red Sox their first win of 2019.Kikuchi, who did not figure in the decision in his MLB pitching debut in Tokyo on March 21, got another no-decision after an 86-pitch effort in which …READ FULL ARTICLE
