The Mariners put up three runs against Justin Speier in the eighth. Suzuki led off with his sixth homer, Jose Lopez doubled in a run and Yuniesky Betancourt singled in another.

Notes

The game was delayed for several minutes when home plate umpire Eric Cooper was hit in the chest by a foul tip off Guerrero's bat. Cooper went down and remained there momentarily, was checked out by Angels trainer Ned Bergert and, when Cooper lined up again behind the plate, received a rare - for an ump - ovation from the crowd. ... Beltre returned to the lineup after missing two games because of a torn ligament in his left thumb and extended his hitting streak to 14 games with the single in the ninth. ... Weaver cut his right index and ring fingers on staples under the dugout bench in Detroit during last week's series. ... Anderson played in his 2,000th regular-season game for the Angels. The only other active player to reach that total with one team is Atlanta's Chipper Jones.

Then Seattle scored three runs in the eighth, put runners on first and second with no outs in the ninth, and Rodriguez got the call. Greeted by rousing cheers as he took the mound, he got the final three outs Thursday night's 7-4 win for his record-tying 57th save of the season.

"When it was 7-0 in the seventh inning, I was just trying to chill and watch the game and relax. This is like the third or fourth time it's happened to me like this. But after their bats started coming alive, I started getting ready," said Rodriguez, who has 16 games left to try to top the major league record set by Bobby Thigpen with the 1990 Chicago White Sox.

Los Angeles manager Mike Scioscia also figured Rodriguez was getting the night off.

"When you're sitting on a seven-run lead, really the furthest thing from your mind is, when do you get your closer up?" Scioscia said.

Rodriguez didn't know anything about Thigpen until it began to look as if he might make a run at the record.

"I didn't even know that he's the one that had the record. I didn't know about him until you guys (reporters) told me about him before the All-Star break," he said. "I started thinking I could get to the record a couple of weeks ago, and I started thinking about it more and more the closer I got.

"I knew if the guys kept playing the way they've been playing, I was capable of doing it. That's what I get paid for. But I've got to give the credit to my teammates and the guys who make the plays behind me. I'd be real selfish if I said I've done this by myself."