PHOENIX (AP) – Kenji Johjima drove in a career-high five runs with his second two-homer game in as many starts and the Seattle Mariners beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-7 Tuesday night.

Johjima, who sat out Sunday’s game at San Diego with a thigh bruise after a four-hit, two-homer game on Saturday, hit a two-run shot in the first inning and three-run drive in the ninth.

The Mariners won their eighth in 10 games and pulled to .500 (39-39) for the first time since they were 6-6 on April 15.

The Diamondbacks rallied to tie it at seven, but reliever Brandon Lyon (1-2) gave up four runs in the ninth.

After Adrian Beltre’s second double, Lyon intentionally walked Raul Ibanez with two outs to get to Richie Sexson, who was hitless on the night. Sexson, booed loudly by the crowd at every at-bat after leaving Arizona following one injury-shortened season, singled in the go-ahead run, then Johjima homered to make it 11-7.

Johjima has nine RBIs in his last two games.

Arizona had runners at first and third with two outs in the ninth when closer J.J. Putz came on to retire Luis Gonzalez for his 13th save in 14 chances. Jake Woods (2-1) pitched 1 2-3 innings of scoreless relief.

Shawn Green was 3-for-4 with a solo homer and two doubles for the Diamondbacks, who lost for the 18th time in 21 games.

Johjima homered and Jose Lopez tripled in two runs against Arizona’s Brandon Webb in the first.

Webb got a no-decision, failing to win for the sixth consecutive start after opening the season 8-0. He allowed seven runs and nine hits in seven innings and left trailing 7-4.

But the Diamondbacks tied it with three in the seventh.

With runners on second and third with no outs, Damion Easley and Craig Counsell struck out looking against George Sherrill. But Julio Mateo relieved Sherrill and Eric Byrnes’ doubled down the left-field line on a 3-2 pitch to drive in two runs. Chad Tracy followed with an RBI double.

The Diamondbacks scored four runs in the first two innings, three on Gonzalez’s first home run since April 20, but Seattle starter Jarrod Washburn settled down and retired the last 11 he faced.

Washburn allowed five hits and four runs in six innings. He struck out five and walked one.

It was by far the longest homer drought in Gonzalez’s career. The previous worst was 149 at-bats in 1994.

Green led off the Diamondbacks’ second with a 411-foot homer to right to cut the lead to 5-4.

It stayed that way until the seventh, when Seattle’s Roberto Petagine led off with a pinch-hit double. He scored when Gold Glove second baseman Orlando Hudson threw wild past third base on Ichiro Suzuki’s grounder. Beltre doubled in Suzuki to make it 7-4.

Notes: C Johjima was hurt when he was struck by a foul ball against San Diego on Saturday. … With his second-inning single, Suzuki has hit safely in 45 of his last 48 games. … The Diamondbacks have not won two in a row since sweeping four at Atlanta from June 1-4.

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