ANAHEIM, Calif. - Adrian Beltre tied a franchise record with four extra-base hits, including two homers, and Richie Sexson added a three-run shot to lead the Seattle Mariners over the Los Angeles Angels 12-5 Monday night.
Beltre also doubled twice before flying out against Chris Bootcheck in the ninth, giving him 11 hits in 17 at-bats during the last four games. He went hitless in his previous 12 at-bats.
Seattle has won four straight to match its longest winning streak of the season, and trails the AL West-leading Angels by 3 1/2 games. The Mariners (25-22) moved three games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2003 season.
Sexson and Jose Lopez had three hits each for the Mariners, who have 50 runs and 74 hits in their last five games.
The loss stopped a three-game winning streak for the Angels, who have lost just five of their last 19 games. They had won five straight home games, allowing a total of only six runs.
With the score 4-4, Sexson reached on an infield hit with one out in the sixth. One out later, Beltre hit Bartolo Colon's first pitch over the fence in left-center for a 6-4 lead. Beltre is 14-of-36 with six doubles, four homers and 11 RBIs in his career against Colon.
Seattle blew open the game in the seventh, batting around and scoring six runs. Jose Guillen hit a sacrifice fly and another run scored on first baseman Casey Kotchman's throwing error before Sexson hit a full-count pitch from Hector Carrasco into the right-center field stands. Beltre hit his team-leading ninth homer off Carrasco later in the inning.
Miguel Batista (5-4) won despite allowing four runs, nine hits and four walks in 5 1-3 innings.
Colon (5-2) gave up nine runs - seven earned - and 11 hits in 6 1-3 innings.
Guillen's two-out, solo homer in the first put the Mariners ahead, but the Angels scored twice in their half on an RBI single by Gary Matthews Jr. and Howie Kendrick's infield out.
Seattle took a 4-2 lead in the second on Beltre's RBI double and a two-run double by Jose Lopez, who was thrown out trying to stretch his hit. Vladimir Guerrero dropped Kenji Johjima's leadoff fly to right, making one of the runs unearned.
The Angels got a run in the third on singles by Guerrero and Matthews and a ground-rule double by Kotchman, and tied it in the fourth on a triple by Reggie Willits and Guerrero's infield out.
Notes:@ The Angels optioned OF Tommy Murphy to Triple-A Salt Lake, and purchased the contract of OF Nathan Haynes from the PCL team. Haynes, who had played 10-plus years in the minors, hit a broken-bat single off Huber in the ninth in his first big-league at-bat. ... Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki singled in the seventh to extend his hitting streak to 21 games - three shy of the Mariners' franchise record set by Joey Cora in 1997. ... Angels C Mike Napoli singled in the eighth to extend his career-high hitting streak to 14 games. His streak of getting at least one hit and scoring at least one run ended at 10 games. ... Kotchman's throwing error in the seventh snapped his errorless streak of 115 games.
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