AMERICAN LEAGUE Crisp sets pace as Tribe rips Mariners

He hit his first home run of the season in the 10-6 victory.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Coco Crisp's first homer of the season inspired the Cleveland Indians.
Crisp hit a leadoff homer to trigger a 15-hit outburst and lead Cleveland to a 10-6 win over Seattle on Wednesday night, snapping Joel Pineiro's eight-game winning streak.
Travis Hafner homered and drove in a career-high four runs.
"Coco set the pace," manager Eric Wedge said. "We were aggressive at the plate."
Crisp, whose only previous career homer came last Sept. 11, opened the game by hitting a 3-1 pitch from Pineiro into the Mariners bullpen.
"Maybe it gave the guys coming up confidence to see a guy with zero hit one out," Crisp said of the shot that snapped Pineiro's scoreless streak at 19 2/3 innings.
"It was bound to happen," Pineiro said. "I had a good streak. I'll come out Monday and start another one."
Snaps losing streak
The Indians ended a five-game losing streak by pounding Pineiro (13-6) for seven runs and 10 hits in 2 2/3 innings -- his shortest outing this season. The 24-year-old lost for the first time in 10 starts since June 11 against Montreal.
"They hit everything," Pineiro said. "I have no excuses."
Jake Westbrook (5-6) won for the first time in four starts since July 12. The right-hander allowed six runs and eight hits over 5 2/3 innings.
"The overall numbers won't show it, but Jake was outstanding," Wedge said. "He was aggressive, too. He came right at their hitters."
The Mariners, who had won six of their previous seven, were a bit short-handed in the bullpen. Seattle traded Jeff Nelson back to the New York Yankees for Armando Benitez a few hours before the game and still didn't have Kazuhiro Sasaki available. The closer, sidelined since June 6 with broken ribs, rejoined the team at about the time Nelson left the clubhouse -- but was not activated.
Defensive gems
Crisp, third baseman Casey Blake and second baseman John McDonald all turned in fielding gems to help hold off Seattle's comeback attempt from a 10-2 deficit.
During Seattle's four-run sixth, Blake made a diving stop of a sharp grounder by Bret Boone and threw out Mark McLemore trying to score. Crisp ended the inning with a running catch in the gap in left-center to rob John Mabry with two runners on.
"I didn't think I could get it," Crisp said. "I actually couldn't see it in the lights, but reached out and it hit my glove."
After McLemore walked to open the seventh, McDonald snared a bouncer by Ichiro Suzuki, tagged McLemore and threw to first for a double play -- just the second turned against the speedy leadoff man in 469 at-bats this season.
Cleveland scored four runs with two outs in a five-run second.
Blake singled and scored on a double to the wall in left-center by Hafner. With two outs, McDonald singled home Hafner and moved to third on Crisp's single. Jody Gerut followed with a single, snapping an 0-for-13 streak with his first RBI in nine games.
Milton Bradley then hit a two-run double for a 6-0 lead.
In the third, rookies Victor Martinez and Jhonny Peralta hit one-out singles, and Crisp singled with two outs to make it 7-0 and finish Pineiro.
Westbrook in control
Westbrook struck out two and walked none -- the first time in 14 starts this season he did not issue a walk.
Hafner's sixth homer, a three-run shot off Aaron Looper, gave Cleveland a 10-2 lead in the fourth.
A two-out RBI single by Edgar Martinez and a three-run homer by John Olerud in the sixth made it 10-6.