SEATTLE _ Ryon Healy knows it isn't the right way to think as a baseball player.
His good games _ multiple hits, or big a homer _ are too easily forgotten and are replaced by hitless games or multi-strikeout games. Those linger in his mind and eat at his insides to the point of being detrimental.
It's the passion of wanting to be perfect or something near it.
But Sunday should be a day that Healy savors.
The big first baseman jump-started Seattle's flatlining offense to life, driving in five runs, including a go-ahead three-run homer, and carrying the Mariners to a 6-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies on a sun-drenched Sunday afternoon at Safeco Field.
The win allowed Seattle (57-34) to avoid being swept by a surging Rockies' team that had won five in a row. The Mariners closed out the nine-game homestand with a 6-3 record. They'll have Monday off before facing the Angels in Anaheim, Calif., and then traveling to Denver for a three-game series at Coors Field before the All-Star break.
After his four-hit night in the second game of the homestand, Healy had gone 3 for 23 with a homer and eight strikeouts coming into Sunday, including going hitless in his last 13 at-bats.
But he changed that quickly in the first inning. With the bases loaded and the Mariners already having scored a run on Kyle Seager's sac fly to right, Healy smoked a double to left-center off Rockies' starter Antonio Senzatela for a 3-1 lead.
Seattle starter Wade LeBlanc couldn't hold that lead, giving up a solo homer to Carlos Gonzales in the fifth inning and a two-run blast to Trevor Story in the sixth.
But Healy gave the Mariners the lead for good.
Facing Senzatela for the third time, he smashed a three-run homer into the upper deck in the bottom of the inning.
The Mariners bullpen closed out the lead. James Pazos and Alex Colome worked scoreless innings and Edwin Diaz struck out the side yet again to notch his league-leading 35th save of the season.
