Cano homers twice for Mariners in 4-3 win over Yankees

Cano snapped a season-long slump with a pair of two-run homers against his former team, Hisashi Iwakuma pitched neatly into the sixth and the Seattle Mariners held on to beat the New York Yankees 4-3 Saturday.

The second baseman responded to hearty first-inning boos with a blast off Michael Pineda (9-6) over the center field wall with Kyle Seager aboard, helping the Mariners end a seven-game skid against New York.

Cano singled between his long balls and grounded out with a shot for his first three-homer game.

Carson Smith gave up an RBI grounder to Garrett Jones in the ninth before getting Didi Gregorius to ground out to Cano with the tying run on second base for his seventh save in a game McClendon called a must win for the 42-49 Mariners.

Brian McCann hit a tying two-out, two-run shot off Iwakuma (2-1) in the fourth, just one of two flyballs off the Japanese right-hander in 5 2-3 innings.

Iwakuma allowed five hits and two runs without a walk and five strikeouts in his third start since coming off the disabled list.

Pineda took a shutout into the seventh against his former team in his first start against Seattle on June 2, but he struggled to throw strikes Saturday.

Mariners: LHP Charlie Furbush (biceps tendinitis) was feeling discomfort in his throwing arm so the team slowed the steady reliever's progress in his throwing program.