SPORTSTICKER AL RECAP KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Ticker) -- Russ Davis drilled his 10th homer in the sixth inning to help the Seattle Mariners to their season-high sixth straight win, a 7-4 triumph over the Kansas City Royals. Davis smacked a 2-2 pitch over the left-center field fence off Jose Santiago, facing only his second batter, to put Seattle ahead, 5-3. It was Davis' first homer at Kauffman Stadium as the Mariners returned to the .500 mark for the first time since they were 4-4 on April 13. "It felt good to hit that one," Davis said. "Being in a close game and putting us up by a couple of runs was good. It was a mistake pitch. (Santiago) didn't get it in as much as we wanted." Kansas City halved the deficit in the bottom of the inning when Rey Sanchez lifted a sacrifice fly to shallow right-center, scoring Jermaine Dye. The Mariners got two insurance runs on a wild play in the seventh. David Segui, who extended his hitting streak to 10 games, laced a shot to center field that Carlos Beltran had for a moment but dropped for an RBI single. The Royals, thinking Beltran caught it for the third out, started off the field and Ken Griffey Jr. took off for third base. Beltran threw but no one was covering and Griffey was able to score. "The rule book says you have to catch it and come up with it," Royals manager Tony Muser said. "I thought the umpire raised his hands signaling he was out, but obviously he didn't." Griffey went 2-for-4 to stretch his hitting streak to 11 games, during which he is 19-for-43 (.442). "We got some timely hits," Mariners manager Lou Pinella said. "I hope it doesn't stop there. We have been playing better baseball lately. We've had better defense, better pitching and getting timely hitting." Kansas City wasted a chance to take the lead in the fifth inning of a 3-3 game with one out and the bases loaded. The Royals already scored once in the inning, but Mike Sweeney popped out to first and Larry Sutton grounded out to kill the rally. "We got anxious with the bases loaded and started jumping at pitches," Muser added. "I think it should be a good character-builder. We are a young club and we need to win these types of ballgames." Reliever Rafael Carmona (1-0) gave up one run and three hits in 2 1/3 innings for his first win since September 28, 1996. Chris Fussell (0-2) surrendered four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Over two starts in less than a week against Seattle, the 23-year-old righthander has given up eight runs and 15 hits in 11 1/3 innings. The Royals have dropped two in a row following a three-game winning streak.  