CLEVELAND, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Shin-Soo Choo connected for a three-run home run in the ninth inning Tuesday, giving Cleveland a 7-5 win over Seattle in the first game of the doubleheader.
The Mariners had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the ninth on Trayvon Robinson's two-run double but Seattle reliever Brandon League (1-5) was unable to hold the lead.
League opened the ninth but gave up a double to Ezequiel Carrera. Asdrubal Cabrera reached on an error with Carrera taking third. Choo then hit the first pitch he saw from League into the left-field stands for the win. It was his seventh home run of the year.
Chris Perez (3-6) picked up the victory, although he allowed the double by Robinson that cost the Indians the lead in the top of the ninth.
The game was a seesaw affair with four lead changes from the fifth inning on, beginning with Kosuke Fukudome and Franklin Gutierrez knocking in runs that put the Mariners ahead 3-2.
Cleveland's Matt LaPorta delivered a sixth-inning sacrifice fly and Carlos Santana singled in a run in the seventh that put the Indiana ahead 4-3.
Fukudome, who had three hits, had a first-inning RBI double and Seattle's Miguel Olivo answered the next inning with a run-scoring single. Cleveland went up 3-2 in the fourth on a Lonnie Chisenhall base hit that drove in Fukudome.
