Joe Mauer's 3 hits back Scott Baker's 5th consecutive win as Twins beat Mariners 6-3
Joe Mauer had three hits and drove in two runs to lead Scott Baker and the first-place Minnesota Twins to a 6-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
The sixth three-hit game this month for Minnesota's $184 million native son, plus Baker holding baseball's worst offensive team to five hits and two runs, kept the Twins 3 1/2 games ahead of the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central.
Baker (12-9) struck out four and walked three in 6 2-3 innings to win his fifth consecutive decision. He joined Carl Pavano and Francisco Liriano with at least a dozen wins for the Twins.
Ichiro Suzuki singled, tripled and scored the first run in the third for Seattle on his bobblehead night.
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