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SEATTLE (Ticker) -- The Seattle Mariners are off to one of those memorable starts but Friday they endured a night to forget. Former Mariner Tino Martinez went 4-for-5 with a homer, four RBI and three runs scored, and three teammates had three hits as the New York Yankees ended Seattle's eight-game winning streak, 14-10. David Justice, Jorge Posada and Scott Brosius had three hits apiece as the Yankees snapped a four-game losing streak by pounding out 19 hits. Every New York batter had at least one run scored and all but Robert Perez, the designated hitter, had a hit. Even with his team staking him to four runs in the opening inning, New York starter Ted Lilly was unable to get out of the second. Ramiro Mendoza (3-1) took over for Lilly in the second and allowed three runs and five hits over 4 2/3 innings. Seattle had won 31 of its first 40 games, matching the start of the 1998 Yankees, who won an American League-record 114 games. The Mariners have won 12 of its first 13 series but lost for the first time since May 6. Seattle starter and native New Yorker John Halama (3-4) was hit hard, surrendering seven runs and eight hits in three innings. "I didn't feel good all day," Halama said. "I couldn't throw strikes, I couldn't consistently put the ball down and away which I'm supposed to do. A lot of my balls were find their way out over the plate, so it's not where I want to live, it's not where a lot of pitchers want to live, especially myself. But, it's just one of those days. Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki continued his dominant hitting, going 3-for-6 with three runs scored, two RBI and two stolen bases. He extended his hitting streak to 23 and has seven straight multi-hit games. "It's not surprising, but at the same time it's not usual - it's between usual and surprising, somewhere between," Suzuki said through a translator about his multi-hit games. Suzuki matched his longest hitting streak in Japan and is just one game away from Joey Cora's 1997 club record. New York regained the services of its All-Star center fielder Bernie Williams, who had missed the last three games to attend his father's funeral in Puerto Rico. The Yankees scored four runs in the first inning, highlighted by Justice's two-run homer, his seventh of the season. An error by Jeter opened the door for Seattle to score three runs in the bottom of the first but New York took a 5-3 lead on a two-out, RBI double by Jeter in the second. Suzuki got Seattle going in the second with a leadoff single. The Japanese sensation stole second and third and scored on Edgar Martinez's groundout. After John Olerud was hit by a pitch, Mendoza came on and plated a run with a wild pitch. "I don't know how many times we've been behind and then come back, but yeah, we feel like we've got the pitching that they're going to shut them down the rest of the way and we keep going up there and battling, trying to push runs across and hopefully by the end of the game we'll be back in it," Olerud said. "That's kind of the attitude." The game remained deadlocked into the fourth when the Yankees scored six runs on two very different plays. With the bases loaded and none out, Brett Tomko struck out rookie Alfonso Soriano and got Jeter to bounce to second for what could have resulted in an inning-ending double play. But Bret Boone, a former Gold Glove Award winner, fired the ball past Carlos Guillen and into left field, allowing all three runners to score. With Jeter at second, Paul O'Neill lined out but Williams reached on an infield single. Martinez then lined his seventh home run of the season for an 11-5 lead. "Tino had a wonderful night," New York manager Joe Torre said. "I thought we had a lot of good things come out of it and when you pitch the way we did tonight, you're waiting for that ninth inning to come." "Made some mistakes tonight that cost us and playing a good team like that, it's tough to overcome that," Boone said. "It was impressive that these guys just kept coming back, kept coming back. Tonight, it wasn't meant to be. It's tough to overcome 13 runs." Seattle rallied with three runs in the fifth, capped by former Yankee Stan Javier's two-run double. But New York got two runs in the sixth on a groundout by Justice and and a two-out double by Posada. Suzuki had an RBI double in the seventh and scored of Javier's bloop single to slice the Mariners' deficit to 13-10. But New York tacked on a run in the ninth and closer Mariano Rivera was able to hold Seattle in check in the bottom of the frame. Olerud extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a base hit in the fifth. Lilly was tagged for five runs -- two earned -- and five hits in 1 1/3 innings. Tomko allowed six runs -- two earned -- and seven hits in three innings.
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