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Final Score: Seattle 2 - Oakland 3

Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Emil Brown's homer in the bottom of the 11th was the last of three solo shots that erased a two-run Seattle lead, and gave Oakland a 3-2 win in the finale of a four-game set with the Mariners.

Jose Lopez' RBI double in the top of the ninth put Seattle ahead 2-0, and Brandon Morrow came on to finish off the game. Coming into his appearance, Morrow had converted all eight of his save opportunities this season, posted a 0.63 earned run average through 32 games and had thrown 17 2/3 straight scoreless innings.

But the hard-throwing Morrow fired a fastball down and in to the first batter, Jack Cust, who blasted it over the right field fence for his 17th homer of the season.

After Morrow struck out Brown and Carlos Gonzalez, pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki came up. The Athletics had not had a pinch-hit home run since August 8, 2006 -- the longest-running streak in the major leagues.

But Morrow's fastball stayed up and went right down the middle, and Suzuki drove it off the face of the stands in left-center field to tie the game, 2-2.

"(Morrow) has a good heater and good breaking ball. You have to wait for the fastball, and if you get it for a strike you don't miss it," Suzuki said. "Fortunately I squared it up."

Mark Lowe replaced Morrow to get the final out, and threw a scoreless bottom of the 10th after the Mariners couldn't push a run across against Huston Street in the top half.

Street again held Seattle scoreless in the 11th, and Cesar Jimenez started on the mound for the Mariners in the bottom half. After Jimenez struck out Cust, Brown smacked a line-shot homer down the left field line to end the game.

"I swung the bat, but (hitting coach Ty Van Burkleo) got me better prepared for that at-bat than any other," Brown said. "He gave me the game plan and I had it in the back of my head. I hit it hard and it had good flight."

Street (2-2) got the win for Oakland, which won three games in the series. Brown finished with two hits, while Ryan Sweeney had two hits before leaving with a dislocated left pinky finger.

Greg Smith threw six scoreless innings in the start for the Athletics, and allowed just four hits.

Jimenez (0-1) took the loss, his first career decision, for Seattle, which has lost four of five overall. R.A. Dickey threw seven-plus scoreless frames in his start, and gave up four hits and four walks, while striking out four.

Willie Bloomquist finished with three hits, including a double, while Lopez and Jose Vidro each had two hits and a run batted in for the Mariners.

"We've been playing better baseball for the last month. If our pitchers keep doing what they've been doing, we're going to win more than we lose," Bloomquist said. "If they do what they've been doing, I like our chances."

Neither team could get on the scoreboard through the first seven innings, but in the top of the eighth, Lopez led off with a double. Lopez went to third on a Raul Ibanez fly out, and after Adrian Beltre was intentionally walked, Vidro singled to drive him in.

In the ninth, Bloomquist lofted a drive to left field that Brown couldn't locate and catch, and the ball bounced over the wall for a ground-rule double. Bloomquist then stole third, and Lopez ripped a grounder by the third base bag to plate the run and extend Seattle's lead to 2-0.