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Final Score: Seattle 5 - NY Yankees 6

Bronx, NY (Sports Network) - Jose Molina's run-scoring double capped a four- run eighth inning as New York roared back to edge Seattle, 6-5, in the finale of a three-game set at Yankee Stadium.

Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter, Bobby Abreu and Robinson Cano drove in a run apiece for the Yankees, who swept the series and won their fifth straight game.

Chien-Ming Wang was touched for five runs on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings but picked up a no-decision.

Edwar Ramirez (1-0) earned the win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief and Mariano Rivera picked up his 12th save with a perfect ninth.

Ichiro Suzuki homered for the Mariners, who have dropped six straight games to the Yankees this season and five straight overall. Jose Vidro finished 2-for-5 and drove in two runs.

Jarrod Washburn, who came into the game with a woeful 6.99 earned run average, allowed just two runs on four hits in six innings but was let down by his bullpen. J.J. Putz (1-2) took the loss after giving up Molina's double.

Trailing 5-2, the Yankees came to life in the eighth off the Seattle 'pen. Jeter worked a walk off Sean Green to start the rally and M's manager John McLaren quickly went to left-hander Arthur Rhodes, but Abreu greeted him with an RBI double to the gap in right-center.

Desperate for a win, McLaren then went to his closer, Putz, but the Yankees kept coming. Alex Rodriguez drew another walk to put runners on first and second. After Jason Giambi fanned looking, Putz threw away Hideki Matsui's slow grounder, enabling Abreu to score.

Cano followed with a sacrifice fly to center to deadlock things at five before Molina came through with the RBI double that landed between Suzuki and Wladimir Balentien.

"I thought I hit it good, but it was in the air for a long time, and usually he (Suzuki) catches almost everything, so I'm just happy it dropped," said Molina.

Rivera came on from there and hurled a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.

"We felt like the game was in the eighth inning, that's why we went to J.J., we just couldn't get them out ... It was a tough game," said McLaren.

With the game deadlocked at one, Seattle went on top with two runs in the fourth. Wang sandwiched a Kenji Johjima infield hit with a pair of walks -- to Adrian Beltre and Richie Sexson -- that quickly loaded the bases. After Rodriguez cut down Beltre at the plate on a Balentien grounder, Yuniesky Betancourt ripped an RBI single to left. Suzuki then followed with what should have been a ground ball out to first but Shelley Duncan booted the ball, enabling Sexson to score.

New York got one back in the fifth. Cano drew a leadoff walk and moved to second on Molina's single before Melky Cabrera dropped down a sacrifice bunt to advance both runners. Damon followed by ripping a hard ground ball down the first base line that threatened to tie the game but Sexson made a brilliant diving stop and only Cano was able to score. Washburn settled down from there and got Jeter to end the frame.

The Mariners added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh. Suzuki ripped a one-out single off the glove of Jeter at short and Jose Lopez followed with a double to left before Vidro lined a big two-run single past a drawn in infield to make it a 5-2 game.

The Mariners jumped on top in the third when Suzuki led off the third by drilling a Wang fastball over the wall in right for his third homer of the season.

The Yankees quickly knotted things in the home-half. Damon roped a two-out double, swiped third and crossed the plate when Jeter ripped his own two- bagger down the left field line.