SEATTLE -- Robinson Cano made sure the Seattle Mariners upheld their end of the wild-card equation.Cano hit two home runs, Taijuan Walker pitched six effective innings and the Seattle Mariners moved within one game of the second AL wild-card spot, beating the Oakland Athletics 5-1 Friday night.You want the other teams to lose, but at the same time youve got win, Cano said. You get to watch it here, but when its time to play, its time to play. Youve just got to go out and give it everything youve got.Seattle, which has won seven of nine, is one game behind Toronto for the second spot. The Mariners also trail Detroit by a half-game.We needed somebody to help us out today, Seattle manager Scott Servais said. We got a little help, but more importantly, we took care of business.Cano had a two-run homer in the first. He added his 38th home run in the third, a solo shot that gave him 100 RBI for the season. Norichika Aoki and Nelson Cruz also homered off Raul Alcantara (1-3), who was tagged for five runs and seven hits in two-plus innings.With Raul today, balls were over the middle of the plate, and unfortunately more mid-thigh than weve seen him, so he just had a tough night, Oakland manager Bob Melvin said.Walker (8-11) allowed one run on two hits in six innings, but walked five in a 113-pitch outing. The only run came on Ryon Healys 13th homer to open the sixth. Evan Scribner, Nick Vincent and Steve Cishek each pitched a scoreless inning of relief.It was just one of those weird starts where one hitter everything was locked in, the next hitter it was all over the place, Walker said. But, I just kept fighting.Cano drove a 1-1 pitch over the wall in center to give the Mariners to a 2-0 lead in the first after a leadoff infield single by Aoki.Aoki made it 3-0 in the second with his fourth homer just inside the right-field foul pole.Cano opened the third with another home run to center and Cruz followed with his 42nd homer to make it 5-0.The As loaded the bases in the fifth on two walks and a two-out error by second baseman Cano, but Walker retired Stephen Vogt on a popout.Zach Neal came on for Alcantara with one aboard in the third and retired all 15 batters he faced.Hes come a long way, Melvin said. Hes had two days off, and gives us five innings of nothing against a team who looked like they were going to score 30 runs in the first couple innings.SEATTLES BIG THREEWith Cano reaching the 100-RBI mark, Kyle Seager needs just one more RBI to make the Mariners the first AL team since the 2001 Oakland As (Eric Chavez, Jason Giambi and Miguel Tejada) with three players with 30 homers and 100 RBI. Cano has 38 HRs, 100 RBI; Nelson Cruz 42, 103; and Seager 30, 99. The last team in the team in the majors with a 30-100 trio was the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals (Jim Edmonds, Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen).TRAINERS ROOMAthletics: RF Danny Valencia was originally in the lineup, but was a late scratch due to neck soreness. Matt Olson started in right.UPON FURTHER REVIEWThere was a crew chief review of Cruzs home run, which barely cleared the outstretched glove of center fielder Jake Smolinksi at the top of the wall, but then bounced back onto the field. The call was upheld after a review estimated at 2 minutes and 21 seconds.MARINERS COMPLETE TRADESeattle sent minor league infielder Tim Lopes to Toronto to complete the Aug. 6 trade for reliever Pat Venditte. Lopes, 22, hit .284 with one home run and 49 RBI with Double-A Jackson of the Southern League. Venditte, who pitches with either hand, is 0-0 with a 7.15 ERA in six appearances with Seattle.UP NEXTAthletics: Rookie RHP Jharel Cotton (2-0, 1.44 ERA) makes his fifth career start since being called up from Triple-A Nashville on Sept. 7. He has not allowed more than one earned run in any of his four starts, lasting at least 5 2/3 innings in each.Mariners: RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (16-12, 3.96 ERA) has been Seattles most consistent pitcher over the course of the season. His 16 victories are a career high, but he is 2-5 in his last eight starts. 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General manager Jarmo Kekalainen told Aaron Portzline of The Columbus Dispatch on Friday that he wants to see Gaboriks contributions go beyond the scoresheet before considering a long-term deal for the soon-to-be unrestricted free agent.Virat Kohli joined forces with MS Dhoni to thump a mammoth 154 from 202 balls that guided India to a comfortable seven wicket win - their second of the five-match ODI series - in Mohali on Sunday.The hosts - left smarting after the narrow six-run loss in the Capital three-day ago, had Ross Taylor to thank - in part - for dropping Kohli on six in the fifth over of the 286-run chase.Kohli made the most of the reprieve and powered the chase with his captain, who had promoted himself to number 4, after India lost Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane inside the first ten overs - with the score on 41.Kohli, as has been the trend, began on a cautious note to ensure he held his wicket in tact as New Zealands seamers looked to make more inroads. The team batting second had won each of the last three ODIs in Mohali before this, chasing down 299, 258 and 304. The Kohli-Dhoni combine looked to add to that tally.The duo rotated the strike early on and when the opportunity presented itself, found the boundary with ease. Dhoni - in particular - did the bulk of the hitting and clubbed six fours and three sixes in his 91-ball 80, before he fell in the 36th over. The wicket-keeper batsman became the the 17th player overall, the fifth Indian, and the third wicketkeeper to reach the 9000-run mark in ODIs.India needed 93 from 78 balls at that stage and Kohli had to step up a notch, and he did just that, by first flicking Tim Southee for a boundary past fine leg and then guiding James Neeshm for a single to third man to bring up his 26th ODI hundred. Kohli and Pandey found the boundary more regularly to reduce the deficit to 55 from 48 balls..ddddddddddddNew Zealands chances of pulling of another win looked bleak as India had seven wickets in hand. Kohlis late onslaught off Trent Boult - where he hit three fours and a six - tied scores with two overs still to play. Pandey hit the winning runs off the second ball of the 49th over.Bit of luck went my way, I feel sorry for Ross, its never easy to drop a catch and the batsman carries through. Ive done that, and Brendon got 300 in Wellington, Kohli said. We may have given a bit too much to New Zealand, but we took it as an opportunity to chase them down, because we know we are a good chasing team.Good to have MS up the order, and Manish gave me confidence as well when he came in. Shows the confidence he has, he was run-out in the last game, but he came here and did his job. Some of the boundaries he hit early on helped me relax. We fed off each other, I fed off MS as well. And it wasnt the easiest pitch.Some balls were stopping on us. In the past I have tried to play out of my skin, getting overexcited, but Ive realised if I can time the ball, and hit the gaps and run hard, I can still get runs. If a bowler can hit the right areas a be good, a batsman can be good playing proper shots. Me and MS had a chat, he took on the spinner, even mistimed hits go over the crowd. I know teams want to get me out immediately, so I take my time, go with the flow and then attack at the end. For that you need to play percentage cricket and I know I can play good cricketing shots and still get runs ' ' '