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Woods chops down Red Sox

Seattle's Willie Bloomquist looks back after reaching third on his RBI triple in the fifth Friday. (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)
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Seattle's Willie Bloomquist looks back after reaching third on his RBI triple in the fifth Friday. (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

SEATTLE – Jake Woods and two relievers combined on a five-hit shutout to help the Seattle Mariners beat the short-handed Boston Red Sox 6-0 on Friday night.

The Mariners won for the third time in four games since ending a franchise-worst road trip 0-11. Their last two victories have come against fellow 14-game winners Randy Johnson of the New York Yankees and Curt Schilling of Boston.

Boston lost for the seventh time in nine games.

Woods (4-1) gave up three hits and walked three in five innings against a Red Sox lineup missing Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis and their combined 47 home runs and 165 RBIs. Woods struck out four.

Schilling (14-6) allowed nine hits and five runs in six innings to lose for the third time in four decisions. He walked none and struck out seven, leaving him one short of 3,000 career strikeouts.

Woods, the former Los Angeles Angels reliever, has allowed one earned run in 10 2/3 innings (0.84 ERA) since joining the rotation. He had a 4.44 ERA in 28 relief appearances.

Woods worked out of a jam in the fifth inning with Seattle leading 1-0. After an Alex Cora single and Coco Crisp walk, Mark Loretta popped out to second base. Woods then got David Ortiz to ground out to first. That prompted Ortiz to slap his hands together in frustration and earn a huge cheer for Woods from the crowd.

Julio Mateo relieved in the sixth and allowed one hit in 2 1/3 innings. Eric O’Flaherty finished the eighth and ninth.

Seattle’s first run off Schilling came on Raul Ibanez’s double that scored Chris Snelling in the first inning. In the fifth, Willie Bloomquist’s triple scored Yuniesky Betancourt, who had singled.

Schilling compounded his problems in the sixth. After a Jose Lopez single, Raul Ibanez singled behind second base. Shortstop Alex Cora tried to get Ibanez at second, but his throw went wide allowing the runners to move up. Schilling scrambled to pick up the ball and threw off-balance to third. His throw skipped to the box-seat railing, plating Lopez.

Ben Broussard added an RBI double that scored Ibanez and Kenji Johjima’s single scored Broussard to make it 5-0.

Snelling’s double and Lopez’s single in the seventh made it 6-0.