Mariners Work Overtime to Beat Yankees

NEW YORK —  The Seattle Mariners spent all afternoon trying to put away the New York Yankees.

Dan Wilson finally got it done.

Wilson hit two three-run doubles, and the Mariners overcame two home runs by Alex Rodriguez, ending their six-game losing streak with a 13-7 victory in 13 innings Saturday in front of a sellout crowd of 54,531.

Scott Spiezio broke a 7-7 tie with a two-run double. After blowing leads of 4-0 and 7-4, the Mariners sealed it by scoring six times in the 13th against Gabe White.

“It was great to finally finish that off and win the game,” Spiezio said.

Rodriguez had his first multihomer game for the Yankees, who hit a season-high five homers -- four off Jamie Moyer.

“You felt like it was a game that you were meant to win because we kept fighting back,” Manager Joe Torre said. “But you understand you’re not going to go home with the ice cream cone all the time.”

Gary Sheffield, Hideki Matsui and Bernie Williams also homered for the Yankees, who lost for only the fourth time in 17 games.

Ramon Santiago led off the 13th with a double off White (0-1). Two intentional walks sandwiched around a sacrifice loaded the bases for Spiezio, who sent an 0-1 pitch to the wall in left-center for a 9-7 lead.

Raul Ibanez was hit by an 0-2 pitch to force home another run, and Wilson cleared the bases with a double to center, sending teammates into a celebration in the clubhouse.

“You should have heard it in here, everybody jumping around and high-fiving,” rookie reliever J.J. Putz said. “This obviously is something that can jump-start this team.”

Wilson also hit a three-run double in the sixth, and his six RBIs matched a career high.

Eddie Guardado (1-0) worked two scoreless innings for the win, ending a game that lasted 4 hours 24 minutes.

Mariner Manager Bob Melvin was long gone by then -- he was ejected in the third for arguing balls and strikes with plate umpire Chris Guccione.

Williams homered against Shigetoshi Hasegawa in the seventh to tie it at 7-7. Putz then got out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth by retiring Rodriguez and Jason Giambi.

“We were one hit short,” Rodriguez said. “I just blew it. I had my chance.”

With the infield in, Rodriguez got thrown out at the plate on Matsui’s grounder to second baseman Jolbert Cabrera in the bottom of the 12th.

“I thought I beat it,” Rodriguez said.