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- Updated: August 23, 2016
SEATTLE — Not even a pair of home runs apiece by the Yankees’ Gary Sanchez and Starlin Castro could derail the Mariners on Monday night at Safeco Field as Seattle rode a pair of three-run blasts by Kyle Seager and Mike Zunino to a 7-5 series-opening win.
Zunino’s opposite-field shot off reliever Anthony Swarzak in the sixth pushed the Mariners into the lead after Sanchez and Castro had given the Yankees a 5-3 advantage with their second homers of the game in the top of that inning off fill-in starter Cody Martin. Nelson Cruz added an insurance run with a solo blast in the eighth, his 32nd of the season, before rookie closer Edwin Diaz came on and stranded runners on second and third for his 10th straight save .
The Mariners are 15-5 over their past 20 games, the best record in the American League in that span, as they closed to 5 1/2 games back of idle Texas in the West at 67-57. The Yankees saw their eight-game win streak at Safeco Field snapped as they fell to 63-61.
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