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SEATTLE -- Mike Zunino got the pitch he expected from Detroit Tigers closer Francisco Rodriguez and didnt waste the opportunity.Kyle Seager had two key hits that tied the score, Zunino lofted a game-winning sacrifice fly and the Seattle Mariners rallied twice to beat Detroit 6-5 in 15 innings Tuesday night for their season-high fifth straight victory.Hes got great stuff, Zunino said. I was just fortunate enough to get a changeup. Those guys put some great at-bats on him early and got his pitch count up and I was just able to get a pitch up.Victor Martinez gave Detroit a 5-4 lead when he opened the 15th with his 20th home run. But the Mariners came back against Rodriguez and took advantage of a pivotal error by left fielder Justin Upton.Rodriguez (1-3) issued a one-out walk to Nelson Cruz before Adam Lind singled. Seager, who tied it 4-all with a three-run homer in the eighth, followed with an RBI single to left. Upton booted the ball, allowing Lind to reach third base as Seager advanced to second.Zunino hit a fly ball to medium center field, and Lind slid home easily ahead of a wayward throw from Tyler Collins.Rodriguez converted 32 of his previous 33 save opportunities.These guys battled and to not be able to come through, Im a little frustrated. Its painful, definitely, Rodriguez said. Ive been here many times. One thing I have is a short memory. Ill be back tomorrow once again.Ariel Miranda (1-0), scheduled to start Thursday for the Mariners, entered in relief and gave up Martinezs homer but wound up with his first major league win.Miguel Cabrera and J.D. Martinez homered off Seattle starter Wade LeBlanc, who allowed 10 hits and three walks in five innings. He left trailing 4-1.Seattle tied it on Seagers shot off Justin Wilson. Franklin Gutierrez singled to open the inning and Lind hit a ground-rule double with two outs. Seager drove the next pitch deep over the wall in right-center for his 21st home run.I threw a bad pitch to a good hitter, Wilson said. I wanted it down and away and I left it right in the middle of the plate. He was swinging and ran into it.Seattles bullpen turned in nine scoreless innings until Victor Martinezs homer.A lot of guys with not a lot of rest down there took the ball tonight, Mariners manager Scott Servais said. It says a lot about our team. We hang in there, we hang in there and when it looks its bleakest, we somehow pull it out. Really proud of our guys.Detroit jumped on LeBlanc for two runs on four consecutive hits to open the first. Ian Kinsler doubled on the first pitch and moved to third on Jose Iglesias single. Cabrera and Victor Martinez followed with RBI singles.Cabrera led off the third inning with his 26th homer, making it 3-0.Seattle cut it to 3-1 in the fourth when Robinson Cano hit a leadoff double and Cruz followed with a triple off the right-field wall.J.D. Martinez answered for Detroit when he opened the fifth with his 14th homer.The Mariners loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth against starter Daniel Norris on consecutive singles by Gutierrez, Cano and Cruz. Right-hander Alex Wilson came on and retired three consecutive left-handed hitters without permitting a run.We had the lead late in the eighth inning and again there obviously at the end of the game, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. Give them credit, they fought back against the back end of our bullpen, against Wilson and Rodriguez, and they got the job done.TRAINERS ROOMTigers: CF Cameron Maybin, who has missed five games since injuring his left thumb last week diving for a ball, is expected to go on the disabled list Wednesday. I guess they call it a Grade 2 sprain, a little bit more significant than originally thought, Ausmus said.Mariners: LHP James Paxton, hit on the left elbow by a line drive Sunday, is expected to play light catch Wednesday. The swelling has continued to go down, said Servais, adding there is no definite date for Paxtons return to the rotation.ROSTER MOVESMariners SS Ketel Marte (mononucleosis) was activated off the 15-day DL and batted ninth. Were going to try not to run him out there eight, nine, 10 consecutive days, Servais said. Hes going to play a couple, get a day off and keep him fresh and sharp here as we go down the stretch. INF Mike Freeman was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma. ... 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A few hundred miles south at the Ageas Bowl the proverb is ever-more appropriate, as overhead conditions appear to be shaping the game at Hampshires ground with increasing regularity.Upon winning the toss in this crucial match, with repercussions for the top and bottom of the Championship table, Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale looked up, saw a cloudless blue sky and opted to bat. With the two most recent first-innings scores at this ground being 637 for 7 and 548 for 6 Hampshire would have been forgiven for preparing themselves for another long stint in the field, having last week been run ragged for 137.4 overs in their most recent Championship match at Taunton.In a season in which fortune has frequently frowned on Hampshire, with injuries and illness robbing them of some of their best players, they could probably hardly believe their luck when after just 20 minutes of play, in which Yorkshires openers had looked relatively untroubled, the sky was suddenly choked by dense and leaden clouds. Five minutes later the floodlights were on, a couple of balls jagged sharply past the outside edge and the whole feeling of the occasion had been transformed. What followed was an engrossingly competitive day that ebbed and flowed as readily as the clouds rolled in and out, in which ball dominated bat for large swathes of it and ended with Hampshire in a decidedly better position than perhaps even they would have envisaged at 11am.If Hampshire are indeed relegated this season, which remains likely, the locals are unlikely to see cricket bearing the intensity and meaning of that which they witnessed in the morning session for some time. The air was heavy with import as Ryan McLaren, Brad Wheal and Gareth Berg stared the top order of county crickets northern powerhouse straight in the eyes and matched them blow for blow, beating the edge by getting the ball to spit, bounce, seam and swing.As well as Hampshire bowled in that opening session it was the catching of Will Smith that could be largely credited with the wickets of Yorkshires left-handed openers. Both Alex Lees, against McLaren, and Adam Lyth, against Wheal, tried to force ballls through the off side delivered from round the wicket that were arguably not wide enough to do so too, and on both occasions Smith, diving to his right at a wide gully, first with two hands and then spectacularly with one, was there to intercept the ball inches above the turf.ddddddddddddThe brilliance of Smith did not rub off on to James Vince, whose catching struggles continued as he dropped England team-mate and possible rival for a winter tour spot, Gary Ballance, twice in less than 15 minutes at third slip. It was third time unlucky for Ballance however when wicketkeeper Lewis McManus did not make the same mistake as his captain when a hint of swing extracted a fine edge to leave Yorkshire teetering at 57 for 3.It was then that the pendulum began to swing back towards Yorkshire as Gale and Jake Lehmann combined in a 62-run partnership either side of lunch that arrested their slide. Lehmanns counter-attacking innings of 58 from 73 balls made for enjoyable viewing. He is a punchy player, unafraid to play his shots and his quickness to pick up length is an enticing trait.After Gale was squared up by McLaren and Lehmann brilliantly caught by Jimmy Adams playing one cut shot too many, the game swung towards Hampshire again only for Tim Bresnan to wrest it back with a typically tough fifty from No. 6.It was after tea with the floodlights on and dark skies above that Hampshire built on the foundations of their strong first two sessions. A superb spell by Berg, in which he took 3 for 13 from five overs and got the ball to move wickedly off the pitch, gutted Yorkshires lower order, instigating a dramatic collapse from 212 for 5 to 234 for 9. The three wickets sealed Berg his first five wicket-haul since September 2011. He, like Hampshire more generally, were assisted by the conditions but it took skill to utilise them.Just how important Yorkshires unbeaten tenth wicket partnership of 41 between Jack Brooks and Ryan Sidebottom was will become apparent after Hampshire have batted. This felt like a good day for Hampshire, especially after being put into the field, but batting was not easy and Yorkshire have the bowlers to cause real damage if helpful conditions persist. ' ' '