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| June 19, 2011 9:00 PM

SEATTLE (AP) - Shane Victorino finished a single shy of the cycle and drove in a season-high four runs, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners 5-1 Saturday night.

Hernandez (6-6) lasted seven innings, allowing the three runs on eight hits. He walked two and struck out five.

Victorino snapped a 1-all tie in the seventh when he hit a ground-rule double with the bases loaded down the left-field line off Hernandez, scoring two runs.

Then with two outs in the ninth, after Jimmy Rollins' third single, Victorino followed with his eighth home run into the right-field seats to make it 5-1. He tripled in the third.

Rookie Michael Stutes (1-0) earned his first career victory in his 23rd big league appearance. He went 1 2/3 innings, but left the seventh with two on and two outs.

Antonio Bastardo came in and struck out Adam Kennedy. Bastardo had a routine eighth then handed it off to Ryan Madson, who pitched the ninth.

Dustin Ackley, who made his big league debut for the Mariners Friday, connected on his first home run in the second, a dozen rows into the right-field seats. It came on a 3-2 changeup from Vance Worley.

Rollins opened the game with a first-pitch single to right off Hernandez then moved to second on a wild pitch. Victorino followed with a walk. Chase Utley's left-side grounder forced Victorino at second, with Rollins moving to third.

Rollins scored on Ryan Howard's sacrifice fly to deep center.

Worley met with trouble with two outs in the first but escaped by inches. Kennedy singled then Justin Smoak doubled off the wall in left-center. The ball missed carrying out by fewer than six inches.

Third-base coach Jeff Datz, initially waving Kennedy around, put up the stop sign as he hit the bag. Kennedy and Smoak were left stranded when Miguel Olivo grounded out to first.

Hernandez has an American League-leading 108 strikeouts, three more than Detroit's Justin Verlander.

Through the first five innings, Worley stayed with Hernandez, as each allowed one run on five hits at that point. But Worley worked harder for the same result. He departed after five innings and 96 pitches.

NOTES: Phillies manager Charlie Manuel compared his top two starters with the Mariners' aces: Phillies Cy Young winners Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay and the Mariners 2010 Cy Young winner Hernandez and rookie Michael Pineda. "They have more power, more explosive fastballs," Manuel said of the Mariners duo, "but my guys have tremendous command with good stuff." ... Mariners 3B Chone Figgins rode the bench, with Kennedy starting at third. Manager Eric Wedge couched it as an opportunity to get Kennedy in the lineup rather than to get Figgins, hitting just .195 and being booed by his home team fans, out of it. "We want to get Adam in there," Wedge said. "One way to get him in there is to play third base. That's why he's in there today."