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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Ticker) -- The Seattle Mariners continue to reach new plateaus. John Olerud went 4-for-5 with a pair of RBI to pace a 17-hit attack as the Mariners pounded the Kansas City Royals, 13-3, to move 25 games over the .500 mark for the first time in franchise history. Dan Wilson, Mike Cameron and Charles Gipson drove in two runs apiece for Seattle (37-12), which completed a four-game sweep of the Royals and have won five straight and six of its last seven. "We had some good pitching and we swung the bats awfully well," Mariners manager Lou Piniella said. The Mariners pounded Kansas City starter Chad Durbin (3-3) for six runs and eight innings over three innings and scored four times against Jose Santiago en route to a 9-0 lead after 3 1/2 innings. "If I can't get that over early in the count, they have the luxury of being patient with me," Durbin said. "I fully expected to come to the park today and give the club a chance to win." "(Durbin) had a tough day," Royals manager Tony Muser said. "When you play this game you are going to have games like this. He's not going through the motions. He's doing the best he can do." Meanwhile, Paul Abbott (3-2) pitched the first complete game of the season for the Mariners and the first of his career, allowing six hits, striking out six and walking three. The righthander threw 119 pitches. "It's nice to have ... to take that baseball in my living room and say I threw a complete game," said Abbott. "Abbott wanted to stay out there," said Piniella. "The bullpen has been used quite a bit, so we wanted to stay away from it." Wilson staked Abbott and the Mariners to a quick 2-0 lead with his second homer of the season in the second. "I'm trying to get more consistent and hit the ball up the middle," said Wilson. "I was able to get some pitches to hit." One inning later Olerud picked up an RBI single and an error by second baseman Luis Alicea allowed Edgar Martinez to race home with Seattle's fourth run. The Mariners turned the game into a rout by scoring five times in the fourth, an inning that included RBI doubles by Martienz, Cameron and Carlos Guillen. Jermaine Dye hit a fourth-inning home run for Kansas City, which has dropped four straight and six of seven. "When you are not playing well, you are not going to win games," Kansas City third baseman Joe Randa sais. "The teams we have played have been playing well before we've been playing them."
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