Bucky’s blast lifts M’s
SEATTLE — Bucky Jacobsen’s tiebreaking homer in the 10th inning gave Seattle a 6-5 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night.
His solo shot off Justin Duschcherer (4-2) was his third of the season, in just 21 at-bats.
In the top half, the A’s put runners on second and third with one out. But Bobby Madritsch (1-0), making his major league debut, got Bobby Kielty to hit a sharp liner to third baseman Justin Leone, who tagged the base for a double play.
The A’s have lost six of their last seven road games and 19 of their last 26 away from home. They managed four homers against Mariners pitching, and erased a 5-3 Mariners lead in the eighth.
Eric Chavez led off the inning with a single against J.J. Putz. With one out, pinch-hitter Scott Hatteberg drove a 3-1 pitch into the right-field seats to tie the game at 5.
Oakland also hit three solo homers off starter Travis Blackley.
Mark Kotsay homered on the game’s first pitch and Bobby Crosby led off the second with his 13th homer to tie it at 2. Damian Miller went deep in the fourth.
Blackley allowed three runs on five hits in five innings, outpitching Barry Zito.
The Mariners hit a pair of home runs off Zito, including Bret Boone’s two-run shot in the first. Raul Ibanez hit a two-run homer in the third to make it 4-2.
Ichiro Suzuki had four hits — three of them infield singles — and extended his hitting streak to 13 games. Suzuki doubled in the first and singled in the second, fourth, and sixth. During the streak, Suzuki is hitting .421. It was his third four-hit game of the season and 14th of his career.
Ichiro’s speed led to a run in the fourth. Willie Bloomquist singled and then scored from first after Zito made a throwing error while attempting to get the hustling Suzuki at first. Zito’s throw ended up down the right-field line.
Zito allowed nine hits and five runs over five innings.
Notes
Kotsay’s leadoff homer was the fourth of his career and first since Sept. 22, 2002, against the Dodgers… Since 2000, in games after the All-Star Break, Oakland is 200-100 (.667) … Suzuki has four straight multihit games, going 12-for-19 during that run. It was his second consecutive four-hit game. … Leone is hitless in his last 16 at bats with seven strikeouts. In his first six games, Leone went 7 for 17 (.411). … Relief pitcher Rafael Soriano threw 30 pitches of live batting practice Wednesday, his first work against hitters since he went on the disabled list May 12 because of a sprained right elbow. The hitters knew what was coming Wednesday. They won’t Saturday, when Soriano is scheduled to throw a simulated game. … Mariners pinch hitting specialist Dave Hansen suffered a slight fracture of his nose Wednesday when he was hit in the face by a grounder before batting practice. Hansen returned from treatment and took part in batting practice, his swollen nose wearing a bandage.