INDIANS Mariners hand Tribe 8-3 defeat

Cleveland is 5-11 at home and 1-12 against teams with winning mark.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Randy Winn's descent in the batting order has gotten a rise out of the Seattle Mariners.
Winn, recently dropped from No. 2 to No. 7 in the starting lineup, got three RBIs and Ichiro Suzuki had four hits Tuesday night in a 8-3 win over the Cleveland Indians.
Winn had a two-run triple and an RBI single as Seattle won for the seventh time in 10 games. He's batting .419 (13-for-31) with eight RBIs and seven runs in eight games since being moved into the seventh spot.
"We'll ride that wave until it runs its course," Mariners manager Bob Melvin said. "It's working for us and I think we'll stick with it for a while."
Shift pays off
Winn was batting just .255 in the No. 2 hole before Melvin shuffled his lineup by moving Carlos Guillen into the second slot and dropping Winn. Since the shakeup, the Mariners are 5-3 and have moved atop the AL West along with Oakland.
As long as he's hitting like this, Winn doesn't mind staying in the bottom third of Seattle's lineup.
"It gives us a different look," he said. "Whatever the team wants, I don't mind."
Seattle starter Joel Pineiro (3-3) put all his survival skills to use for six innings that lacked much artistic value or beauty.
"It wasn't pretty," Pineiro said. "But I'll take it."
Pineiro allowed three runs and nine hits in six innings. But he barely made it past the second when the Indians scored three runs on five hits.
However with Seattle's bullpen getting busy behind him, Pineiro settled down and blanked Cleveland on two hits over the next four innings.
"To get through six innings was a borderline miracle," Melvin said. "It shows something about his character and makeup."
Edgar Martinez and Jeff Cirillo had two RBIs apiece as Seattle improved to 4-0 against Cleveland this season.
Giovanni Carrara threw two hitless innings, and Shigetoshi Hasegawa worked a perfect ninth for Seattle.
The Indians fell to 5-11 at home, and they're just 1-12 against teams with winning records this season.
Strand seven early
"We had some early opportunities to score more runs and we didn't," said Indians manager Eric Wedge, whose team stranded seven runners in the first four innings. "When you get an early lead against a good team you have to expand it."
Winn's two-run triple highlighted Seattle's four-run fourth off Brian Anderson (2-4) that gave the Mariners a 6-3 lead.
John Olerud singled, Mike Cameron doubled and Winn followed with a shot over right fielder Jody Gerut. Cirillo followed with an RBI single, and Suzuki capped the outburst with a run-scoring double.
It was Suzuki's first four-hit game this season and in his last seven games, he's hitting .452 (14-for-31).
The Mariners added two runs in the fifth on an RBI single by Winn and Cirillo's RBI double.
Anderson remained winless since April 9 -- a span of five starts -- by allowing six runs and nine hits in four innings. He dropped to 1-5 in 12 career starts against Seattle.
"They have a good lineup, but that's no excuse," Anderson said. "You still have to get hitters out, that's pathetic."
Pineiro, who's had trouble in the early innings this season, gave up three runs in the second as the Indians took a 3-2 lead.
He was battling himself as much as the Indians early on, but Pineiro finally relaxed and the Mariners turned three double plays to help him out.
"Sometimes you need to have a game like that, when you don't have your best stuff and you still win," he said. "I was able to keep us in there and we got some runs."