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<< Previous   of   Next >> Associated Press  (click to enlarge) The Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki ducks under the arm of Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi, who was unable to catch the throw after Suzuki bunted in the fifth inning of Sunday's game.   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Report scores and results to 425-339-3470 or 1-866-6-SCORES (Call after 4:30 p.m.) E-mail information including items for Tuesday's Communities Sports Roundup and Thursday's Outdoor Calendar, to sports@heraldnet.com Kevin Brown, Sports Editor kbrown@heraldnet.com   Published: Sunday, September 7, 2008 Lopez hits 2 homers, Mariners beat Yanks Associated Press SEATTLE -- Jose Lopez hit two homers, Ryan Feierabend went from idle to impressive and the Seattle Mariners sent the New York Yankees tumbling into fourth place with a 5-2 victory on Sunday. Lopez's liner just over the wall in left field gave Seattle a 3-2 lead in the fourth off Mike Mussina (17-8), who allowed four runs and seven hits and made a key error -- his first in three years -- in six innings. Lopez added his 14th home run of the season in the eighth off Jose Veras. It was Lopez's first multi-homer game. Miguel Batista pitched a perfect eighth before the Yankees had two on and one out in the ninth against J.J. Putz. But Putz struck out a flailing Robinson Cano and then pinch-hitter Wilson Betemit for his 12th save in 20 chances. New York lost two of three games to the team with the worst record in the AL. The Yankees, who have made the postseason for 13 consecutive years, trail the Red Sox by 81/2 games in the AL wild-card standings with 19 games remaining. Perhaps more tellingly, they fell into fourth place in the AL East behind Toronto, which beat Tampa Bay 1-0. They were done in this time by Feierabend, a 23-year-old who showed up to work Sunday thinking he wasn't going to pitch until Wednesday. Then Carlos Silva told the Mariners he couldn't start because of sharp pains in his upper back. Feierabend (1-2) allowed just five hits -- including solo home runs by Derek Jeter and Xavier Nady early -- in seven innings for his second win in 11 career decisions. In the third, Jeter singled under the glove of diving shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt to tie Babe Ruth for second on the Yankees' all-time hit list. It was Jeter's 2,518th hit. Lou Gehrig has the New York record with 2,721 hits. Alex Rodriguez helped squander a rally with New York trailing 3-2 in the fifth. After Rodriguez walked with two outs and Jeter already at second, lefty Feierabend caught Rodriguez far off first base. In the ensuing rundown, first baseman then Bryan LaHair threw to third base and Beltre ran down Jeter to end the inning. Rodriguez was 0-for-10 with two walks in the series. The former Mariners star, still lustily booed here for leaving town for a mammoth contract in Texas after the 2000 season, is 4-for-33 (.121) in his last 10 games in Seattle. One of the only remaining dramas of the Yankees' season is whether Mussina, who struck out seven and walked one, will win 20 games for the first time in his 18 seasons. He will get at least three more starts this season. After Lopez's go-ahead homer, Mussina helped make it 4-2 in the fifth. He hurriedly threw away a one-out bunt attempt by Ichiro Suzuki down the right-field line for a single and his first error since Aug. 3, 2005. Mussina then walked Beltre before Raul Ibanez scored Suzuki with a single. Jeter's home run in the first was his 205th, tying him for 11th on the Yankees' list with Dave Winfield. It was also Jeter's 1,000th RBI, joining 10 other former Yankees with at least that many. Nady's 10th home run since he joined the Yankees on July 26 -- and 23rd of the season -- made it 2-0 in the second. But New York did little else. In the third Beltre hit his 25th home run, after Betancourt singled leading off.

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