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SEATTLE (AP) -- Tino Martinez felt good about his at-bats in
Oakland earlier this week, despite going 3-for-13 in three games.
|  | | Ichiro not only has hit in 23 straight games, but Friday's 3-for-5 effort was his seventh multi-hit game in a row. |
After the New York Yankees outslugged the Seattle Mariners on
Friday night for a 14-10 win, Martinez felt relief.
"We just needed a win, period," he said.
Martinez went 4-for-5 with a three-run homer and four RBIs as
the Yankees snapped a four-game losing streak and ended Seattle's
eight-game winning string.
David Justice also hit a three-run homer for New York. The
Mariners, baseball's winningest team, gave up their most runs this
season.
"When they tied us up, we didn't quit," Yankees manager Joe
Torre said. "I thought that was a plus for us that we kept
fighting. We did a lot of little things well tonight and a lot of
good things came out of it."
Seattle rookie Ichiro Suzuki extended his hitting streak to 23
games. He got three hits and matched the team record of seven
straight multihit games shared by Ken Griffey Jr. and Joey Cora.
Suzuki has the longest hitting streak in the majors this year,
and is one shy of the Mariners' mark set by Cora in 1997. Suzuki
doubled and singled twice, and scored three times.
Suzuki stole two bases as Seattle tied a team record with five
steals. He leads the majors in stolen bases with 15.
"It is somewhere between usual and a surprise," Suzuki said of
the start to his rookie season.
His only complaint about his performance Friday was letting
Justice's homer get past him in the first inning. The ball, hit off
John Halama (3-4), nicked the wall and bounced into the stands for
a 4-0 lead. It was Justice's seventh home run of the season.
"If I had jumped like Michael Jordan, I could have caught the
home run, but I don't have the same jump," the 5-foot-9 Suzuki
said.
The Mariners, who swept a three-game series at Yankee Stadium in
late April, missed the opportunity to go 23 games over .500 for the
first time in the franchise history.
Martinez connected in the Yankees' six-run fourth, when they
broke a 5-all tie. Bernie Williams, back after missing three games
to attend his father's funeral in Puerto Rico, singled in the
inning for his lone hit.
Seattle second baseman Bret Boone committed a costly throwing
error in the inning that led to five unearned runs.
"It's a throw I make all the time, and tonight I didn't,"
Boone said.
Halama said "it was not a fun day pitching today."
"Both pitchers went out and got hit hard. My ball just found
its way across the middle of the plate," he said.
Seattle came back with three unearned runs in the first after
shortstop Derek Jeter's error, and scored twice in the second to
tie it at 5.
"We held them to a touchdown and a field goal, and we had two
touchdowns," New York's Derek Jeter said. "Both teams made
mistakes. Good teams capitalize on it, and fortunately we were able
to score more runs."
Yankees starter Ted Lilly lasted just 1 1-3 innings, giving up
five runs on five hits with two walks and a wild pitch. He plunked
John Olerud in the helmet before he was relieved by Ramiro Mendoza
(3-1).
Game notes
Seattle stole five bases last Aug. 13 against Cleveland.
... Suzuki twice had a 23-game streak in 1994 with the Orix Blue
Wave in Japan, where he was a seven-time batting champion. ...
Martinez had his first four-hit game of the year. ... Mariners 3B
David Bell was scratched from the starting lineup because of a knee
injury suffered Thursday. A magnetic resonance imaging test Friday
came up negative. He was listed as day-to-day. ... Jeter's
first-inning fielding error was the Yankees' second in two games
after going seven games without a miscue. ... Olerud has a 10-game
hitting streak. ... The Mariners' bullpen streak of 13 scoreless
innings was broken in the fourth. ... The 24 runs is the most
scored in a game at Safeco Field.
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Baltimore 7
Minnesota 2
Detroit 18
Tampa Bay 2
Boston 6
Kansas City 3
Toronto 9
Texas 3
Cleveland 7
Anaheim 2
Oakland 3
Chi. White Sox 2
NY Yankees 14
Seattle 10
Arizona 4
Chicago Cubs 0
Florida 2
Colorado 1
Montreal 3
San Diego 1
Philadelphia 5
St. Louis 4
Milwaukee 0
Pittsburgh 0
NY Mets 8
Los Angeles 0
Atlanta 6
San Francisco 5
Cincinnati 7
Houston 4
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