SEATTLE — The Mariners rallied for two runs in the bottom of the ninth Saturday, handing the Guardians a 4-3 loss on a walk-off RBI single by Jorge Polanco off closer Emmanuel Clase.

Seattle loaded the bases against Clase on a leadoff single by Dominic Canzone, a walk to pinch-hitter Miles Mastrobuoni and an intentional walk to J.P Crawford.

Canzone scored the tying run on a wild pitch by Clase that skipped away from Bo Naylor. After an intentional walk to Cal Raleigh, Polanco lined the third pitch he saw up the middle for the game-winning hit.

Clase took the loss, his first of the season, while suffering his third blown save. Jackson Kowar, who pitched a scoreless ninth for the Mariners, picked up his first win.

The Guardians gave away an early lead and dropped the series opener on Friday, but bounced back to erase a first-inning deficit Saturday night.

Cleveland took the lead in the sixth when Daniel Schneemann singled to open the inning and went to third on a Nolan Jones base hit with one out. After Jones stole second, Schneemann came home on a wild pitch by Mariners lefty Gabe Speier that hit the dirt and skipped past catcher Cal Raleigh to put the Guardians in front by a run.

After forcing Gavin Williams to throw 30 pitches in the first inning Friday, Mariners hitters worked deep into counts against Bibee on Saturday, forcing the right-hander to throw 31 pitches and grabbing an early lead behind an RBI double by Raleigh and a sacrifice fly by Jorge Polanco.

Bibee entered the game having allowed opponents an .847 OPS in the first inning in his 13 previous starts, the highest of any inning for the right-hander this year. J.P. Crawford and Julio Rodríguez singled to open the frame before Raleigh connected on a drive off the right field wall for his 12 two-base hit and 54th RBI.

Bibee, making his second career appearance against the Mariners, had pitched brilliantly into the seventh inning in both of his previous two starts against the Yankees and Astros with little or nothing to show for it.

His only other career start against Seattle yielded six shutout innings and 12 strikeouts in an 8-0 win at Progressive Field nearly one year ago to the day.

The Mariners ran themselves out of a scoring opportunity in the fifth when Crawford singled and moved to second with one out after Bibee hit Raleigh with a slider on his left foot. But with Polanco at the plate, Crawford was caught stealing as Bibee whirled and threw to Gabriel Arias. Crawford was tagged out in a rundown and Bibee worked out of the inning by getting Randy Arozarena to ground into a fielder’s choice at second base.

Cleveland cut the Seattle lead in half in the fourth thanks to a Nolan Jones RBI double with two out. Carlos Santana and Daniel Schneemann singled off Kirby with one out, and after a Bo Naylor strikeout, Jones drove an 0-1 sinker from Kirby into the left center field gap for his seventh two-base hit. Santana scored to give Jones 17 RBI.

After hitting a home run in Friday’s series opener, Jones has an RBI in back-to-back games for the first time since he drove in runs in four consecutive games from May 28 to June 1.

But the Guardians failed to add on as Gabriel Arias drew a walk to load the bases, but Kirby whiffed Angel Martínez on three pitches to end the inning.

José Ramírez evened the score at 2-2 in the fifth with his 13th home run, a solo blast off Kirby that stayed inside the right field foul pole to give the six-time All-Star 34 RBI, tying Santana for the team lead.

The homer extended Ramírez’s career-high on-base streak to 39 straight games, the longest in the American League this season and second-longest in the majors behind Kyle Schwarber’s 41-game run. He has hit safely in 33 of his last 35 games dating back to May 6, and has reached in 16 straight games against the Mariners.

Schneemann and Jones each reached base three times including one walk apiece, while Ramírez added a single in the seventh for his 27th multi-hit game of the season.

Crawford reached base five times, including three base hits and two walks.

Next

The series concludes Sunday with a 4:10 p.m. first pitch from T-Mobile Park. Right-hander Luis Ortiz (3-7, 4.26) will start for Cleveland while the Mariners send righty Emerson Hancock (2-2, 5.04) to the mound. The game will air on CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network.