By Joe Haggerty
CSNNE.com Red Sox Insider
SEATTLE The search for career win No. 200 continues for Tim Wakefield.
The venerable knuckleballer has now come up empty in four different attempts to secure the esteemed baseball plateau, and really didnt come all that close to victory in dropping a 5-3 game to the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field.
A controversial error charged to Jed Lowrie on a force play at second base in the bottom of the third inning helped spark a three-run Mariners rally that gave them the initial lead, and then young guns Dustin Ackley and Casper Wells provided RBI power in the latter innings against Wakefield.
The 45-year-old knuckleballer pitched all eight innings for the Sox and allowed five runs on nine hits, but was outpitched by his counterpart from Seattle.