Boone’s slam lifts Mariners

SEATTLE – Bret Boone hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift the Seattle Mariners to an 8-4 come from behind victory over the Boston Red Sox at Safeco Field Monday night.

Seattle trailed 4-1 through seven innings and 4-2 entering the ninth. In the Mariners’ half of the ninth inning, Miguel Olivo and Edgar Martinez hit back-to-back solo home runs to tie the game.

Boone’s home run came off Boston reliever Curtis Leskanic.

Soriano update

Relief pitcher Rafael Soriano, on the disabled list since May 12 because of a sprained right elbow, will throw batting practice Wednesday and possibly a simulated game this weekend.

“We’ve been focused on how he’s feeling,” pitching coach Bryan Price said. “We’ve had no setbacks and we don’t anticipate any, but we will be cautious.”

When the roof fell in

During Dan Wilson’s first season as a Mariner in 1994, he would stretch on the Kingdome turf and stare at the massive ceiling above.

“I remember looking up at the ceiling and wondering what would happen if a speaker ever fell,” Wilson said.

Ten years ago Monday, he found out.

It wasn’t a speaker, but several ceiling tiles that fell into the Kingdome seats on July 19, 1994, while the Mariners stretched in the afternoon before their scheduled game against the Baltimore Orioles.

That game was called off, and the Mariners played the rest of their games on the road before the major league players strike Aug. 12 wiped out the rest of the season.