NEW YORK -- Veteran right-hander Chris Young picked up his first win in 20 months and catcher Mike Zunino cranked out a career-high four hits as the Mariners topped the Yankees, 6-3, on Tuesday in Robinson Cano's return to the Bronx.The Mariners scored four runs in the fifth off Yankees lefty CC Sabathia and made it stand as the 6-foot-10 Young earned his first victory since Sept. 2, 2012, while with the Mets.Cano went 1-for-5 with an RBI, a stolen base and a run scored while getting heavily booed by the crowd of 37,484 at Yankee Stadium every time he stepped to the plate in his first game in New York since signing a 10-year, $240 million deal with the Mariners in December. 
Zunino went 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored, raising his average from .235 to .274. Willie Bloomquist, starting at short for the third time in the past four games, was 2-for-4 with a run scored as the bottom two hitters in the order accounted for six of the Mariners' 15 hits.Seattle (11-14) has won four of five since snapping an eight-game losing streak last week, while the Yankees fell to 15-11.Young, who didn't pitch in the Majors last year due to right shoulder problems, allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits over 5 2/3 innings. He's 1-0 with a 3.04 ERA in five outings -- four starts -- this year after signing with Seattle just prior to the start of the regular season.Sabathia had gone 8-0 with a 1.36 ERA in his last nine starts against Seattle, but the Mariners got to him for nine hits and four runs in five-plus innings as he fell to 3-3 with a 5.11 ERA on the season.Seattle scored all four runs against Sabathia in the fifth inning, helped by an overturned ruling after manager Lloyd McClendon successfully challenged an out call on Zunino's leadoff grounder to second.Zunino went to third on a Bloomquist single to right, and Seattle loaded the bases when Abraham Almonte dropped down a bunt that Sabathia fielded but held onto when second baseman Brian Roberts didn't get over to cover first in time against the speedy Almonte.Cano drove in Zunino with a groundout to first, then Corey Hart delivered a two-run double and Justin Smoak added a run-scoring single to make it 4-2.Cano manufactured another run in the seventh when he led off with an infield single to short, stole second and scored on a two-out single to left by pinch-hitter Dustin Ackley. Zunino then drove in Ackley with a single to right to make it a 6-2 game.The Yankees scored once in the bottom of the ninth off Mariners closer Fernando Rodney, the only run New York managed in 3 1/3 innings against Seattle's bullpen.Greg Johns / MLB.com
Zunino went 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored, raising his average from .235 to .274. Willie Bloomquist, starting at short for the third time in the past four games, was 2-for-4 with a run scored as the bottom two hitters in the order accounted for six of the Mariners' 15 hits.Seattle (11-14) has won four of five since snapping an eight-game losing streak last week, while the Yankees fell to 15-11.Young, who didn't pitch in the Majors last year due to right shoulder problems, allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits over 5 2/3 innings. He's 1-0 with a 3.04 ERA in five outings -- four starts -- this year after signing with Seattle just prior to the start of the regular season.Sabathia had gone 8-0 with a 1.36 ERA in his last nine starts against Seattle, but the Mariners got to him for nine hits and four runs in five-plus innings as he fell to 3-3 with a 5.11 ERA on the season.Seattle scored all four runs against Sabathia in the fifth inning, helped by an overturned ruling after manager Lloyd McClendon successfully challenged an out call on Zunino's leadoff grounder to second.Zunino went to third on a Bloomquist single to right, and Seattle loaded the bases when Abraham Almonte dropped down a bunt that Sabathia fielded but held onto when second baseman Brian Roberts didn't get over to cover first in time against the speedy Almonte.Cano drove in Zunino with a groundout to first, then Corey Hart delivered a two-run double and Justin Smoak added a run-scoring single to make it 4-2.Cano manufactured another run in the seventh when he led off with an infield single to short, stole second and scored on a two-out single to left by pinch-hitter Dustin Ackley. Zunino then drove in Ackley with a single to right to make it a 6-2 game.The Yankees scored once in the bottom of the ninth off Mariners closer Fernando Rodney, the only run New York managed in 3 1/3 innings against Seattle's bullpen.Greg Johns / MLB.com
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