Ichiro Suzuki hit a solo homer and drove in two runs Friday as the Seattle Mariners slammed the Anaheim Angels 7-4.
Suzuki started the fifth inning with his 13th homer as the Mariners built a 6-1 lead.
Seattle remained 2 1/2 games behind Oakland in the American League West and 1 1/2 games behind Boston, the wild-card leader.
Edgar Martinez led off the second inning with his 24th homer. Martinez fouled a ball off his broken left big toe in the fifth. He hurt it last weekend in Baltimore by fouling a pitch off the toe.
He dropped to the dirt and winced in pain but completed the at-bat, hitting a sacrifice fly that gave Seattle a 6-1 lead. John Mabry batted for Martinez in the seventh.
It was 6-1 in the fifth after Seattle scored twice, with one run unearned. Suzuki hit a first-pitch homer to right field and Martinez drove in Carlos Guillen on his last at-bat of the game.
Dan Wilson hit a sacrifice fly to left, scoring Cameron, and Winn scored on Suzuki's groundout.
Jamie Moyer (18-7) got his 18th win, allowing two runs on eight hits with five strikeouts, one walk and one hit batter. Rafael Soriano replaced Moyer in the eighth, and Arthur Rhodes allowed a ninth-inning single by Adam Kennedy and walked Jose Molina.
Chone Figgins hit an RBI groundout, and Eric Owens singled in a run. Rhodes then Anderson to fly out, and Shigetoshi Hasegawa needed just one pitch to get his 15th save in 16 chances, retiring Salmon on a flyout.
Randy Winn doubled and hit two singles, driving in two runs. Martinez drove in two runs.
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