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NY Yankees 7, Seattle 4
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By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer
May 10, 2005
AP - May 10, 9:59 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tino Martinez is providing the offense that Jason
Giambi isn't.
Martinez homered for the fourth consecutive game, a two-run drive
that sent the suddenly streaking New York Yankees to a 7-4 win over
the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.
Chien-Ming Wang got his first major league victory as New York
overcame a two-run deficit and extended a regular-season winning
streak to four for the first time since September.
Aaron Sele (2-4) didn't make it out of the third inning, and the
Mariners lost for the ninth time in 10 games.
Wang (1-1), a right-hander from Taiwan starting because Jaret
Wright is on the disabled list, allowed runs in each of the first
two innings but only two hits after that.
He became the fifth straight Yankees starter to allow three runs
or fewer, giving up three runs and four hits in 7 1-3 innings.
The crowd of 39,780 gave him a standing ovation when he was taken
out.
Bret Boone hit a two-run double in the eighth off Tom Gordon, giving
him 1,001 RBIs, and Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth for his fifth
save in seven chances.
Before the game, Yankees manager Joe Torre and general manager Brian
Cashman met with Giambi, whose average is down to .195 following an
0-for-15 slide. The pair asked Giambi whether he would consider
accepting a minor league assignment.
Martinez, back with the Yankees for the first time since 2001, has
taken over at first base in Giambi's absence and already has eight
homers and 18 RBIs. A fan favorite, he was given a curtain call after
his home run in the five-run third put New York ahead 4-2.
''It's a certain sense of security having him here, because he's been
here before, the fact that he had a great deal of success here,''
Torre said before the game.
Martinez, who agreed to a $3 million, one-year contract on Dec. 31,
helped the Yankees win four World Series titles from 1996-00. No
Yankee had homered in four straight games since Martinez did it
from June 27 to July 1, 2001.
``I was on vacation when the deal was made,'' Torre said. ``I made
the call to him in Florida, I could tell when he picked up the phone
how excited he was.''
Sele dropped to 6-11 against the Yankees, giving up seven runs --
six earned -- and eight hits in 2 2-3 innings.
Ichiro Suzuki led off the game with his third triple of the season
and scored on Randy Winn's grounder. Wilson Valdez's RBI single in
the second put the Mariners ahead 2-0.
John Flaherty, 8-for-16 against Sele in his career, hit an RBI single
in the second, and Robinson Cano followed with a sacrifice fly.
Martinez, who doubled in the second, homered in the third for a 4-2
lead. Flaherty hit a run-scoring double and scored on a single by
Cano, which stopped an 0-for-19 slide. New York got another run when
Derek Jeter hit an infield single, Cano took a wide turn at second
and third baseman Adrian Beltre threw the ball into the outfield for
an error.
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