Mariners vs Royals : 4 - 9 (zondag)

Reggie Sanders opted for a cold bath after leading the Kansas City Royals over the Seattle Mariners 9-4 Sunday. The 38-year-old outfielder needs some help to recover after big games now. Sanders drove in a season-high three runs and the Royals snapped a nine-game losing streak at Safeco Field. He also stole third and scored on a throwing error as the Royals (14-40) won by their second-highest margin of the season. Kansas City, which won its first road day game this year, had 15 hits -- one more than it had in its previous three games combined when it scored a total of one run and lost three times. Sanders hit a sacrifice fly in the third inning to drive in Tony Graffanino for a 3-2 lead. Ichiro Suzuki hauled in Sanders' flyball on the warning track in right field. It was the second time in the series that Sanders had come close to becoming the fifth major league player with 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases.

Seattle Mariners center fielder Willie Bloomquist makes a diving catch for an out of a ball hit by Kansas City Royals' Mark Teahen during the seventh inning of their baseball game in Seattle Sunday, June 4, 2006. The Royals won 9-4.

Seattle tied it in the bottom of the third on Adrian Beltre's two-out double and Richie Sexson's RBI single. But Kansas City took the lead for good in the fourth on Angel Berroa's double and John Buck's two-run homer off erratic Jarrod Washburn (3-7). Catcher Kenji Johjima's target on the full-count pitch to Buck was low and away. Washburn's 94 mph fastball was high and down the middle. In the fifth, Sanders hit a one-out single and advanced to second when Washburn walked Emil Brown, who homered in the second. Sanders then stole third and scored when Johjima's throw sailed into left field. Mark Teahen singled in Brown to make it 7-3. Sanders added a two-run single in the sixth to increase the Kansas City lead to six. His previous high for a game this season was two RBIs, accomplished on six different occasions.

Former general manager Allard Baird, who was fired last week, signed Sanders out of St. Louis with a $10 million, two-year contract last winter. This is Sanders' eighth team -- and perhaps his toughest challenge at self-motivation. Washburn allowed a season-high seven runs to a team that had scored one run in its previous 28 innings. He yielded eight hits and two walks while striking out five in 4 1-3 innings. The runs were the most Washburn had allowed since May 8, 2005, at Detroit, when he was with the Angels. He counted it as his worst Seattle outing, beyond allowing six runs in five innings against Cleveland on April 11. Washburn has a 4.50 ERA and has won just once since April 26. Not exactly what Seattle was expecting when it signed him to a $37 million, four-year contract.

Kansas City's Mark Redman (1-4) allowed eight hits and four runs in 5 2-3 innings pitching the day before his 69-year-old father, Allen, has life-threatening surgery in San Diego. He walked three and struck out two while pitching for the first time since May 19. He was coming off the bereavement list. Redman had gone 16 starts without a win before Sunday. Elmer Dessens pitched the final 3 1-3 innings for his fourth career save and first in the AL.