Nelson Cruz greeted reliever Jacob Turner with a go-ahead, three-run homer in the sixth inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 Thursday to stop a five-game losing streak.

Seattle Mariners take first lead since last Friday but it doesn’t last. Washington scores four runs in the first inning and sends the Mariners to their fifth straight loss.

Washington rocks Mariners starter Christian Bergman for 10 runs in four innings. Anthony Rendon leads the Nationals’ assault with two homers and five RBIs. Mariners have been outscored 34-3 in their last three games.

Yolmer Sanchez had a two-run single in Chicago’s five-run first inning, Derek Holland pitched eight strong innings and the White Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 8-1 on Sunday.

Chicago White Sox score four runs in the first inning against Yovani Gallardo, and it only got worse after that for the Mariners in lopsided loss. Avisail Garcia paces Chicago attack with two homers and six RBIs.

Melky Cabrera doubled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.

Pinch-hitter Guillermo Heredia’s two-out single in the ninth inning scored Jarrod Dyson from second base to give the Seattle Mariners a 5-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night.

Mariners starter Christian Bergman pitches 7 1/3 innings before reliever James Pazos completes the shutout. Jean Segura extends hitting streak to 16 games with a two-run single.

Matt Joyce hit a two-run homer and Mark Canha added a three-run shot in a five-run ninth inning that rallied the visiting Oakland Athletics to a 9-6 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.

Sean Manaea, the Oakland A’s lefty starter, walked four batters in the first inning – including two with the bases loaded – and yielded a towering, two-run home run to Nelson Cruz in the second that helped the Mariners claim a 6-5 victory on Monday night.

The Mariners arrived in Toronto riding a four-game winning streak thanks to a prodigious offense that made their obvious warts – starting pitching and an inconsistent bullpen – not seem so unappealing. Four days later, they head back to Seattle having lost four straight.

Nick Vincent had not allowed a run in 12 outings before giving up Jose Bautista’s three-run homer in the seventh inning. The Mariners also lost another starting pitcher when Ryan Weber exited because of shoulder tightness.

The Mariners didn’t hit Friday night in a 4-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre after slumbering through much of Thursday’s 7-2 loss in the series opener.

The Toronto Blue Jays rocked Chase De Jong for five two-out runs in the fifth inning and rolled to a 7-2 victory over the Mariners in the opener of a four-game weekend series at the Rogers Centre.

There are rare occasions when reality tops anything imagined fiction can conjure up.

One was a utility player with no real track record of big-league success. The other was ticketed for Triple-A Tacoma to start the season, having been outplayed by Guillermo Heredia. The fact that he was on the Mariners’ roster was a product of the Yankees not seeing him as part of their future.

A seven-run seventh inning is a pretty good cure-all. Even for a struggling club with a disabled list that seems to grow geometrically on a daily basis.

A stellar performance by the Texas bullpen gave the Rangers enough time for Rougned Odor to come through with the missing big hit. Odor hit a two-run home run in the 13th inning and the Rangers got six innings of shutout relief pitching to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1 early Saturday.

Danny Valencia homered and had four hits, Ariel Miranda pitched seven strong innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-3 on Thursday night.