Napoli hits game-winning homer for Angels

Mike Napoli's two-run homer with two outs in the ninth gave the Los Angeles Angels a 5-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.

Napoli homered off Miguel Batista (1-7), who had walked Robb Quinlan with two outs. Napoli drove a 3-1 pitch deep over the fence in left field for his 16th homer and fourth RBI of the game.

Jose Arredondo (8-2) pitched a perfect ninth for Los Angeles.

Although they wrapped up the AL West on Wednesday, the Angels still want to secure home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs. Their 90-57 record is baseball's best.

The Angels' Juan Rivera led off the seventh with a double against Ryan Rowland-Smith, went to third on Quinlan's groundout and scored the tying run on Napoli's sacrifice fly.

Los Angeles closer Francisco Rodriguez, not needed this time, still has 15 games remaining to try to rewrite the major league single-season saves record. He got his 57th in Thursday night's 7-4 win over Seattle to match Bobby Thigpen's record set in 1990. Rodriguez had moved within one of the mark when he pitched the ninth of the Angels' AL West-clinching victory over the New York Yankees the previous day.

Angels right fielder Vladimir Guerrero left the game after four innings because of soreness in his right knee and was listed as day-to-day.

Both teams had a runner thrown out at home in the first, although the Mariners came out of the inning up 1-0.

Ichiro Suzuki led off the game with a single, then was thrown out trying to score from first on Raul Ibanez's one-out double on a relay from center fielder Gary Matthews Jr. to second baseman Sean Rodriguez to catcher Napoli. Matthews doubled leading off for the Angels, went to third on a groundout, then was thrown out by shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt as he tried to score on Mark Teixeira's foul pop down the left-field line.

Beltre accounted for the first Seattle run with an RBI double that extended his hitting streak to 15 games, the longest active streak in the majors.

Quinlan's RBI triple and a run-scoring single by Napoli gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead in the second.

The Mariners moved out front with a pair of runs off Joe Saunders in the fifth, on two-out RBI singles by Raul Ibanez and Adrian Beltre.

Saunders allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings. Rowland-Smith gave up three runs on four hits in 6 1-3 innings.

Notes:@ Los Angeles CF Torii Hunter missed his third consecutive game, sitting out the first two to serve a suspension for a scuffle with New York Yankees catcher Ivan Rodriguez, and this one to rest a sore quadriceps muscle. ... Beltre, who is playing despite needing surgery on the torn ligament in left thumb, is (26-58) during his current streak, with (5) homers and (11) RBIs. ... If the Angels finished this season with the best record in the majors, it will be their first time ever.