Blue Jays 8, Mariners 6

TORONTO – Ichiro Suzuki got three more hits, but Orlando Hudson and Vernon Wells homered to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to an 8-6 victory over the Seattle Mariners .

Suzuki, chasing George Sisler’s major league record for hits in a season, went 3-for-5 and has 217 hits. He has 29 games left to break Sisler’s mark of 257 hits set in 1920 with the St. Louis Browns.

Suzuki, the AL player of the month for August, leads the majors with a .374 average.

Hudson and Gabe Gross drove in three runs, and Wells ended an 0-for-24 slump with a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who won for just the third time in nine games.

Bob File (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 innings for the win, and Justin Speier got three outs for his third save.

The Blue Jays got off to a quick start against Cha Seung Baek (1-1), who allowed eight runs and eight hits in just 2 2-3 innings in his first major league start.

Hudson hit a solo shot in the first, and Toronto scored six runs in the second on Hudson’s two-run double, Wells’ homer and Gross’ two-run single.

Gross chased Baek with an RBI single in the third, which gave Toronto an 8-3 lead.

Toronto starter Justin Miller walked Raul Ibanez with the bases loaded in the first before allowing Bucky Jacobsen’s RBI grounder and Jolbert Cabrera’s run-scoring single.

Jose Lopez’s RBI double and Suzuki’s run-scoring single in the fourth cut it to 8-5, and Willie Bloomquist added an RBI grounder in the sixth.

Notes: Blue Jays C Gregg Zaun left with a bruised right elbow after being hit by a pitch in the second inning. Zaun went to 1B after Seattle starter Cha Seung Baek plunked him, but didn’t come out for the top of the third. Kevin Cash replaced him. Zaun is day-to-day. … The Blue Jays purchased the contracts of SS Russ Adams, 1B Eric Crozier and RHP Ryan Glynn from Triple-A Syracuse and recalled C Guillermo Quiroz from Syracuse. … The Mariners have lost two straight following a season-high five-game losing streak.

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