Yanks' rally stuns Mariners

Joe Girardi's first home run since last August broke aneighth-inning tie and completed the New York Yankees' comeback from afour-run deficit in a 6-5 victory Monday against the visiting SeattleMariners.

The Yankees' much-maligned bullpen kept the team close after theMariners had opened a 5-1 lead, and Mariano Rivera worked the ninthfor his seventh save in 10 chances. He retired Ken Griffey Jr. on afly to center for the final out.

The Yankees won for the eighth time in their last 10 games toclimb above the .500 mark for the first time this season.The Yankees' Tino Martinez tied the American League record with31 RBI in April. His run-scoring single in the first matched themark set by the Toronto Blue Jays' Joe Carter in 1994 and put him onebehind the major-league record set by the San Francisco Giants' BarryBonds last season.Before the game, the Yankees announced that baseball's rulingexecutive council voted to approve their acquisition of thenegotiating rights to Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu from the SanDiego Padres. Irabu and the Yankees cannot negotiate, though, untilthe deal is approved by the Japanese commissioner. That approval isexpected later this week.Brewers 14, Rangers 8: Marc Newfield tied his career high withfour RBI and Dave Nilsson hit a three-run home run to help hostMilwaukee outslug Texas, which had its five-game winning streaksnapped.The Brewers scored five runs in the first inning and added foureach in the second and third to open a 13-2 lead. The Brewers had 12hits in the first three innings, including six doubles.