Seattle ? Alfonso Soriano got his mark, Bernie Williams just missed.

Soriano homered to become the only second baseman to post a 30-30 season and Williams’ streak ended at 11 straight hits one short of the record as the New York Yankees beat Seattle, 8-3, Saturday.

“I think it was a great run,” Williams said. “I had a lot of fun with it. And obviously you don’t expect those things to last. It just wasn’t meant to be.”

Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and John Vander Wal also homered as the Yankees won their sixth in a row.

Soriano hit his 30th homer in the seventh inning off Mariners reliever James Baldwin. Soriano, in his second full season at just 24 years old, earlier stole his AL-leading 34th base.

Soriano hit his 29th homer last Sunday off Oakland’s Mark Mulder.

“Now, I want to forget about 30-30,” he said. “Now, I want to keep going and play hard every day because the season’s not over yet.”

Williams singled in the first inning off Ryan Franklin (4-3), then grounded out to third baseman Jeff Cirillo in the third. Franklin said Williams had good karma going for him in the first.

“He didn’t hit it hard,” Franklin said. “He just rolled it between Cirillo and (shortstop Carlos) Guillen. He had a little I don’t want to say luck because he is such a good hitter but he had a little something working for him.”

Williams came up one hit shy of tying the major league mark of 12 consecutive hits set by Mike “Pinky” Higgins of the 1938 Boston Red Sox and tied by Walt Dropo of the 1952 Detroit Tigers.

Williams reached base safely in 13 straight plate appearances, three shy of the mark set by Ted Williams with the Red Sox in 1957.

After going 4-for-4 Friday night, Williams said he didn’t want to know what the record was. But he admitted after Saturday’s game that he found out anyway.

“I made a few calls last night and for some reason people watching the game (on TV) said, ‘Oh, my God, you know what?'” Williams said.

Williams enjoyed watching Soriano succeed.

“That guy’s awesome,” he said. “He’s still got a month and a half to go. He could be 40-40.”

Soriano smiled at the 40-40 suggestion.

“I don’t want to think about it because I had 29 and needed one more homer and I play five or six games (five) and no hit a homer. So I don’t want to think about 40-40 or whatever.”

Yankees manager Joe Torre said Soriano was a player with unlimited potential.

“We don’t know what the ceiling is for this kid,” Torre said.

Mike Mussina (15-6) won his second straight start and improve his record to 3-3 since the All-Star break.

The Yankees won a matchup of division leaders and improved to a season-high 33 games over .500 (77-44).

Soriano joined Bobby Bonds (1975) as the lone Yankees players to reach the 30-30 mark.

Indians 9, Angels 4

Anaheim, Calif. Jim Thome and Travis Fryman homered and Omar Vizquel triggered a six-run seventh inning with a tiebreaking RBI single as Cleveland beat Anaheim, preventing the Angels from regaining first place in the AL West. The loss ended a six-game winning streak by the Angels, who lead the wild card race by 1 1/2 games over Oakland. Anaheim is a half-game behind Seattle in the division. Coco Crisp, playing in his third major league game, had three hits for the second straight night for the Indians.

Rangers 9, Blue Jays 5

Arlington, Texas Alex Rodriguez hit three home runs, becoming the sixth player ever with five straight 40-homer seasons, and Texas beat Toronto. Rodriguez hit a two-run homer in the first inning, his 40th of the season. He added Nos. 41 and 42 with solo shots leading off the third and seventh innings. Rafael Palmeiro and Herbert Perry also homered for the Rangers. Rodriguez leads the majors with 107 RBIs, and is second in homers to Sammy Sosa, who hit his 43rd for the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.

Orioles 7, Tigers 3

Baltimore Mike Bordick celebrated his return from the disabled list by singling in the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning, and John Stephens earned his first major league win as Baltimore rallied to beat Detroit. Marty Cordova had three hits and two RBIs for the Orioles, who trailed 3-1 before sending nine men to the plate in a four-run seventh. Limited to two singles over the first six innings, Baltimore got five hits in the seventh against Mark Redman (7-11) and two relievers.

Stephens (1-2), making his fourth start in the majors, allowed three runs and six hits in seven innings. Using a mixture of 83 mph fastballs and a looping 59 mph curveball, the Australian recorded a career-high nine strikeouts.

Red Sox 5, Twins 2

Minneapolis Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield frustrated the Twins for six innings, allowing just four hits as Boston beat Minnesota. Wakefield (7-4), who also allowed four hits in his last outing against the Twins, walked three and struck out four to send Minnesota to its ninth loss in 12 games.

Alan Embree pitched the Red Sox out of a bases-loaded jam with the score 3-1 in the seventh to help preserve the win.

After Wakefield walked Doug Mientkiewicz, loading the bases in the seventh, reliever Bob Howry walked in a run.

But Embree came in and struck out A.J. Pierzynski, Luis Rivas and pinch-hitter Bobby Kielty.

Athletics 9, White Sox 2

Oakland, Calif. Mark Ellis hit a three-run homer and Miguel Tejada drove in his 100th run of the season as Oakland beat Chicago for its fourth straight victory.

Mark Mulder (14-7) pitched eight innings of five-hit ball for his third victory in four starts. He got a wealth of run support from the A’s, who pounded Jon Garland (8-9) and reliever Rocky Biddle for eight runs in the first four innings.