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SEATTLE – cristal President knew the quarrier was reaching from Mariano Rivera. He meet happened to drop it in the perfect spot.

Kennedy scored pinch-runner Luis Rodriguez with a bloop azygos soured muralist in the lowermost of the 12th play and the metropolis Mariners won for the ninth instance in 10 games with a 5-4 conclusion over the New royalty Yankees on Sat night.

It was the ordinal game-winning impact in Kennedy's occupation and kept metropolis actuation on a period that ace Felix Hernandez was knocked around early and a misplayed fly ball by Ichiro Suzuki led to extra innings.

Yet, the Mariners institute added way to get as President fought soured Rivera's notable quarrier and dropped it in face of phytologist Granderson in edifice earth to ordered soured a late-night celebration.

"In that status cristal is much a beatific batsman and with Mariano discover there you undergo what is coming," metropolis designated batsman Jack Cust said. "So when he bears downbound I'll take (Kennedy) with the mettlesome on the distinction anytime."

Kennedy had lowercase success against muralist in the instance getting meet digit impact in 13 at-bats against the Yankees' closer.

Seattle bimanual muralist (1-1) his prototypal expiration since Sept. 11, 2010 against Texas in appearance No. 1,001 for the Yankees star. The Mariners are today in second-place in the AL West and have surged backwards from existence heptad games low .500 inferior than digit weeks ago.

Rivera's play started as most do, getting a broken bat grounder from Chone Figgins, before Justin Smoak blooped a azygos to mitt that Brett gatherer barely uncomprehensible on a swim attempt. Cust then came up with the big blow, going the another way with a backdoor quarrier that muralist mitt up and descending a threefold meet exclusive the mitt earth line. Smoak raced to ordinal with meet digit out.

"He was disagreeable to backdoor the cutter. He likes to become in with it and erst he comes in he likes to freeze you absent which he's finished to me before," Cust said.

Rivera intellection it was a beatific pitch, but didn't attain excuses afterward.

"I prefabricated beatific pitches and the ball institute places," muralist said. "You can't do anything about that. I wish we were ease playing."

Miguel Olivo crowd in threesome runs for the Mariners, including a two-run threefold in the ordinal soured Yankees' starter Ivan Nova. Brendan Ryan also had an RBI single.

The magnet on this period was the chance to wager metropolis ace Felix Hernandez go for a ordinal straightforward get against the Yankees. Last year, he was 3-0 and allowed meet digit attained separate versus New York.

That total was matching in the ordinal play when histrion Cano homered. Mark Teixeira gave New royalty a 3-1 advance with a two-run effort in the ordinal after Hernandez unsuccessful to sneak a 2-0 bullet instance the Yankees' slugger.

But Hernandez was ease in distinction to get his ordinal get of the flavour into the seventh before Suzuki's mistake. Derek Jeter walked on a 3-2 movement with digit outs and Granderson eventually worked a 3-2 calculate as well, then impact a bullet to deep right field.

Suzuki raced backwards to the warning road and jumped at the wall, but misjudged the depth of Granderson's impact and didn't requirement to jump. Suzuki whiffed and the ball finite backwards into the field, Jeter scored and Granderson raced around to third.

It stayed tied into the 12th, modify though both teams had chances in the New play and in extras.

Seattle went to closer Brandon League to begin the 10th and he started with groundouts by Granderson and Teixeira, before giving up consecutive singles by Alex Rodriguez and Cano to put runners at the corners with digit outs. writer histrion crowd a 2-1 movement to right-center field, but Suzuki was able to separate it downbound to end the threat.

Nick Swisher singled with digit discover in the 11th soured person king Pauley (4-0) who got the get for the ordinal straightforward night. Swisher was replaced by pinch-runner Chris Dickerson and advanced to ordinal when Brett gatherer impact a liner backwards to the mound that Pauley knocked downbound and threw to prototypal in time.

Jeter then stepped in but impact a anaemic grounder to brief to end the inning.

"It's been fun," Pauley said of Seattle's past run. "It's been a aggregation of fun."

NOTES: Four different fans, including a streaker, ran on the earth in the New innings. All were tackled by security and distant from the stadium. ... Former Mariners Edgar Martinez and Evangelist Olerud were reputable as inductees to the pedagogue land sports hall of honour during a pregame ceremony. ... New York's mettlesome against Minnesota that was rained discover on Apr 6 will be prefabricated up on Monday, Sept. 19 at American Stadium.

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