Cleveland ? When Raul Ibanez stepped to the plate in the ninth inning, he wasn’t thinking about any individual accomplishments.

Despite the fact he had already hit two two-run homers and a triple, the Seattle Mariners left fielder had only one thing on his mind.

“This would have been a heartbreaking loss,” he said. “To have a seven-run lead and lose, it would have been a long 50-minute flight.”

Ibanez made sure the Mariners’ trip to Chicago, where they open a three-game series against the Cubs on Tuesday night, was a short one. His run-scoring double, his fifth RBI of the game, gave Seattle an 8-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Monday night.

After Cleveland rallied to tie the game in the eighth, Jose Vidro started the ninth with a single off Joe Borowski (0-3). Ibanez doubled to right-center with one out, leading the Mariners to their fourth straight win and eighth in the last nine games.

Ibanez finished a single shy of the cycle. It was the sixth time he hit two homers in a game, the last coming on June 24, 2006, at San Diego. It was the 10th four-hit game of his career.

“Raul swung the bat well,” Mariners manager Mike Hargrove said. “He was big tonight.”

Borowski took responsibility for the loss.

“With a game like that you know the guys battled back and played great and you have to go back out there and shut them down,” he said. “Sometimes it just happens.”

Brandon Morrow (3-0) pitched the last two innings for the win, despite allowing the Indians to tie the game in the eighth.

Trailing 7-0, the Indians scored three runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and two in the eighth.

Ibanez, who came into the game with two home runs in 209 at-bats this season, homered in the third and fourth innings off starter Paul Byrd.

Josh Barfield singled off George Sherrill to start the eighth. Pinch-hitter Victor Martinez singled off Morrow, moving Barfield to third. Grady Sizemore walked on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases. Pinch-hitter David Dellucci hit into a fielder’s choice, scoring Barfield.

Casey Blake’s double into the left field corner tied the game, but Dellucci was thrown out at home on a relay from Ibanez to shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt to catcher Kenji Johjima.