Hill, Jones, Sherrill keep Seattle regretting Bedard trade in Orioles’ 1-0 win

Hill, Orioles edge Mariners 1-0

SEATTLE — Rich Hill threw seven sharp innings, Adam Jones and George Sherrill came up big against their former team and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Seattle Mariners 1-0 on Monday night.

The Orioles sent former ace Erik Bedard to the Mariners for top outfield prospect Jones, reliever Sherrill and three other players in 2008. While Bedard has been hampered by injuries, Jones and Sherrill have flourished in Baltimore.

Jones doubled and scored the only run Tuesday night on a sacrifice fly by Aubrey Huff off Jarrod Washburn (3-4) in the sixth inning. After Jim Johnson struck out two in a perfect eighth, Sherrill finished for his 11th save in 13 chances.

Ichiro Suzuki tied the Mariners’ record by hitting safely in his 25th consecutive game, but the AL’s lowest-scoring team had just one other hit after the All-Star’s leadoff double in the first. The last 20 Mariners went down after Yuniesky Betancourt singled in the third.

Hill (2-0), who missed the start of the season with a strained elbow, struck out seven and walked three. He allowed seven runs, six earned, and six hits over 3 1-3 innings in his previous start against Toronto.

Hill had the Mariners nearly falling over home plate while lunging at curveballs as slow as 69 mph. Leading slugger Russell Branyan tried to bunt leading off the seventh.

Baltimore ended its 17-inning scoring drought — and Washburn’s streak of 11 consecutive scoreless innings — in the sixth. Jones led off with a double, advanced to third on Nick Markakis’ single and scored when Huff hit a flyball to center.

Suzuki tied his career-high hitting streak set in 2007 with his drive to left-center in the first and went to third on left fielder Nolan Reimold’s error. But Betancourt popped out, Adrian Beltre struck out and Mike Sweeney popped out.

It was the third time in four innings dating to Sunday’s loss at the Los Angeles Angels that Seattle had not scored with a runner at third and less than two outs. Suzuki was that stranded runner twice.