Suzuki torments K.C.

? Ichiro Suzuki continued to torment the Kansas City Royals.

Suzuki had three hits, Milton Bradley scored the tiebreaking run on Rob Johnson’s sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Royals, 6-5, Wednesday.

Suzuki, who has a .377 batting average against the Royals, scored a run and drove in a run in his major-league-leading 11th multihit game of the season. He has a 14-game hitting streak at Kauffman Stadium, including a record eight consecutive multihit games by an opponent.

Chone Figgins had seen Suzuki’s act while he was the Los Angeles Angels, but witnesses it up close, batting behind him in the Mariners’ lineup.

“It’s amazing,” Figgins said of Suzuki’s 11 multihit games in the first 22 games. “To play against him so many years and to actually see him do it, and I’m behind him, it’s even better.”

Three-hit games are nothing new for Ichiro, who has 2,060 hits since his debut in 2001.

“I’ve seen that before,” Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said. “He has so many weapons. The bunt last night, and he gets an infield single today. There are a lot of things he can do. Obviously, the speed helps.”

Bradley doubled to open the eighth against Brad Thompson (0-1) and moved to second on a groundout. After reliever Dusty Hughes walked Casey Kotchman, Johnson hit a fly ball to left.

Brandon League (3-1), the second of four Seattle pitchers, picked up the victory by retiring all four batters he faced. David Aardsma got the last three outs for his league-leading eighth save in nine chances.