Lopez helps Mariners beat Dodgers 4-2

LOS ANGELES — Jose Lopez had three hits including a two-run double, Adrian Beltre singled home a run in his last game before undergoing shoulder surgery, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Sunday. Lopez, in his fourth game back with the Mariners after spending the previous six on the bereavement list because of the illness and subsequent death of his sister in Venezuela, was 8 for 12 with four RBIs in the interleague series.

Seattle’s final two stops on this nine-game road trip are Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. But they’ll be going without Beltre, who is expected to miss six to eight weeks following surgery on Tuesday in Los Angeles to have bone spurs removed from his non-throwing shoulder.

Garrett Olson (3-2) threw 72 pitches over five innings in his seventh start of the season, allowing two runs and four hits. The left-hander, who has bounced back and forth between the rotation and the bullpen, gave up six runs over 5 1-3 innings last Tuesday against San Diego.

David Aaardsma pitched a perfect ninth for his 15th save in 16 attempts.

Hiroki Kuroda (2-4) gave up four runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 innings, striking out five and walking none. The left-hander has not allowed a base on balls in his last four starts, extending his streak to 29 consecutive innings without one.

Ichiro Suzuki, vying for his third AL batting crown, faced Kuroda for the first time in the major leagues and finished the day1 for 5 — lowering his major league-leading average to. 372. He beat out an infield hit to second base in third to trigger a three-run rally and extend his hitting streak to 11 games, but his streak of seven multihit games ended.

The Dodgers, who have baseball’s best record at 48-27 despite losing four of their last five games, were held to one hit by Olson until Matt Kemp led off the fifth with his 10th home run. Four batters later, Andre Ethier reduced Seattle’s lead to 4-2 with a sacrifice fly.

Ken Griffey Jr., making his seventh start in left field this season and only his 10th in the outfield altogether to keep his bat in the lineup for the Mariners’ final interleague game of 2009, prevented a run later that inning with a nice running backhanded grab of Orlando Hudson’s shallow flyball. The 39-year-old Griffey has made 42 of his 52 starts this season as a DH.

Franklin Gutierrez opened the scoring in the second inning with an RBI single. The Mariners increased the margin to 4-0 with Beltre’s run-scoring single and a two-out, two-run double by Lopez over the head of center fielder Matt Kemp.

NOTES: The Mariners acquired OF Ryan Langerhans from the Washington Nationals in exchange for 3B/OF Mike Morse. … As of Sunday, the Dodgers hadn’t decided whether they’ll discipline RHP Ronald Belisario — one of the mainstays of their bullpen — after the 26-year-old rookie was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of DUI in Pasadena. That decision will be made by GM Ned Colletti. “It’s an organizational issue at this point in time,” manager Joe Torre said. “It doesn’t mean I’m not going to get involved, but for the most part with what he’s had to deal with, we’ll just have to let it play out.”