Everett rescues M’s in 11th

SEATTLE – Plate spinners at the circus suffer less breakage than the pitchers Wednesday night at Safeco Field.

The Seattle Mariners tip-toed through the shards of 17 hits and a five-run comeback by the Minnesota Twins, then beat the Twins 10-9 on Carl Everett’s home run in the 11th.

It was Everett’s eighth homer this season and his second to end a game. He also hit the game-winner April 19 against the Texas Rangers.

The Mariners had scored four runs in the sixth inning to lead 9-4, then made their fifth victory in six games as difficult as they could.

Needing six outs to win, the bullpen turned the five-run cushion into nothing.

Sean Green, who pitched impressively in the sixth and seventh in relief of starter Jamie Moyer, got one out in the eighth and wore down. He gave up two hits and a walk to load the bases, and manager Mike Hargrove replaced him with left-hander George Sherrill to face lefty Joe Mauer.

Sherrill walked him, forcing in a run to make it 9-5.

Hargrove brought in Rafael Soriano, who got Torii Hunter to pop up for the second out and quickly put Michael Cuddyer into a two-strike hole.

Soriano appeared to have thrown strike three with an outside-corner slider. The left side of the Mariners’ infield, plus Soriano was leaning toward the dugout when plate umpire Bruce Dreckman called it a ball.

On the next offering, Cuddyer jolted the next pitch into the left-field seats for a grand slam, tying the score at 9.

Before that, as the Mariners built their big early lead, it wasn’t easy.

The Twins had 10 hits and the Mariners four after four innings.

The Twins put runners on base in every inning but the fifth against Moyer, who worked with two runners on base and nobody out in each of the first three innings, yet led 5-3.

Moyer, who shut out the Royals on two hits with a 2-hour complete game Friday, had given up two hits Wednesday – and two runs – before he got out of the first inning. He pitched one 1-2-3 inning, the fifth.

Ichiro Suzuki and Richie Sexson each homered in the first inning to give Seattle a 3-2 lead. Yuniesky Betancourt added a two-run homer in the second.

The Mariners scored four runs in the sixth off Twins relievers Willie Eyre and Dennys Reyes, including Adrian Beltre’s RBI double and Raul Ibanez’s three-run homer, his team-high 10th.

Feeling a draft

The Mariners kept their word over the two-day, 50-round major league draft.

They addressed their needs by drafting 34 pitchers in the 50 rounds that ended Wednesday.

Notable among the picks were Cam Nobles from Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Wash., and the University of Washington’s Kyle Parker. Both are right-handed pitchers.

Seattle also went for relative experience – 38 of the 50 draftees were collegians.