Seattle, WA (My Sportsbook) - Jose Lopez knocked in the game-winning run for the second time in three games, as the Mariners outlasted the Athletics, 8-7, in 15 innings to take the rubber match of this three-game set.

After Gio Gonzalez tossed 108 pitches in five innings out of the bullpen for Oakland, the visitors had no choice but to send Friday's starter Dana Eveland to the mound in the 15th.

The lefty allowed a leadoff bloop single to Franklin Gutierrez and put runners on the corners when his toss to second on Yuniesky Betancourt's sac bunt went into the outfield.

Eveland (1-2) gave a free pass to Ichiro Suzuki, and Lopez dropped a looper in front of Rajai Davis in center to end the five-hour, two-minute marathon.

Jason Vargas (1-0) was the seventh Mariners reliever used, earning the win with 2 1/3 scoreless innings. Mike Sweeney hit a two-run homer, and Kenji Johjima added a solo blast in the ninth to push the game into extra innings.

Jack Cust went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer for the A's, who had won four of six entering play. Landon Powell had three hits and two RBI in defeat.

Josh Outman allowed just two runs on four hits with five strikeouts in a six- inning start for the A's. His counterpart, Chris Jakubauskas, surrendered four runs on six hits in 4 1/3 frames for the Mariners, who have alternated wins and losses in their last six games.

Matt Holliday's groundout plated a run in the first, and Cust followed by smacking his third homer of the season for a quick 3-0 edge.

Sweeney made it 3-2 with a homer in the fourth, also scoring Lopez, who opened the frame with a single.

Jakubauskas was pulled when Ryan Sweeney's sacrifice fly scored Gregorio Petit in the fifth.

The A's led 4-2 until Suzuki's two-out, run-scoring base hit in the seventh.

Kevin Cameron kept the Mariners at bay in the eighth, but Johjima hammered the first pitch he saw from Russ Springer over the left field wall to tie the game with one away in the ninth.

Seattle had a chance to end it, but Suzuki struck out and Lopez grounded into a fielder's choice with the winning run at second.

Neither team threatened in their first three at-bats in extra innings.

Miguel Batista, in his third inning of relief in the 13th, issued a leadoff walk to Davis, who stole second and moved to third on Johjima's throwing error. Batista hit Bobby Crosby around a pair of strikeouts, and Powell laced a full-count offering down the right-field line to bring in a pair.

Powell later came around on Orlando Cabrera's single for a much-needed insurance run, because Gonzalez, in his fourth inning of relief, loaded the bases with one out in the bottom half.

With no one to turn to in their exhausted bullpen, the A's stuck with Gonzalez, who walked Gutierrez to force in a run. Betancourt then brought in a run with a groundout, and Suzuki slapped an RBI single by the shortstop to tie the game yet again.

Lopez, who singled in the winning run in the series opener on Friday, fouled out to end the frame.

Game Notes

The Mariners signed outfielder Jerry Owens to a minor league contract on Sunday...Lopez and Wladimir Balentien each had three hits for Seattle, which stranded 15 runners...Ryan Sweeney had three hits for Oakland, which left 14 men on base...11 total players had multi-hit games...Mike Sweeney's home run was the 200th of his career and first with Seattle...Gutierrez had two hits and three walks in the win.