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Even big day from Edgar can’t save Mariners

Jim Cour Associated Press

SEATTLE — Ronnie Belliard hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning and the Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners 9-5 on Wednesday night.

Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki went 1 for 5 to extend his hitting streak to 13 games and moved within 30 hits of tying George Sisler’s single-season major league record of 257 hits. He has 24 games to tie Sisler’s mark, set in 1920 with the St. Louis Browns.

Jody Gerut also homered and Ben Broussard drove in two runs for the Indians, who won the season series against the Mariners 5-4.

Edgar Martinez hit two homers, and Bret Boone and Greg Dobbs had one each for Seattle, which lost its seventh straight.

Dobbs’ homer came in his first major league at-bat, the first Mariners player to accomplish the feat. He sent a 3-2 pitch from Bob Wickman over the right-field wall in the ninth inning.

Victor Martinez gave the Indians a 1-0 lead in the first with an RBI single.

Edgar Martinez, the Mariners’ 41-year-old designated hitter who is retiring at the end of the season, homered off Cliff Lee (11-7) in the bottom of the inning to tie it at 1.

Martinez put Seattle ahead 3-1 with a two-run homer in the fourth for his first two-homer game of the season.

Belliard homered in the fourth, when the Indians scored four unearned runs.

Matt Lawton reached on fielding error by second baseman Boone and went to second on the play. He moved to third on Victor Martinez’s groundout and scored on Travis Hafner’s single. Casey Blake followed with a double to put runners on second and third, and one out later, Belliard hit his ninth of the season to make it 5-3.

Boone hit his 21st homer of the season in the fifth, the third off Lee.

Cleveland scored three insurance runs in the seventh to go ahead 8-4. Blake singled in a run and Broussard drove in two runs with a single.

After singling in the seventh, Suzuki leads the majors with a .377 batting average. He also stole his 33rd base of the season, second in the A.L.

Coco Crisp went 3 for 5 with a walk to pace a 14-hit Indians’ attack.