OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) _ Freddy Garcia tied a team rookie record with his 17th win and Brian Hunter hit a two-run double and stole three bases to boost his AL-leading total to 44 as the Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 10-2 Saturday.

Alex Rodriguez, Raul Ibanez and David Bell each homered for the Mariners.

But Ken Griffey Jr. went 0-for-3 with two walks to remain two homers shy of 50 for the season and 400 for his career with one game left. He hasn't homered since Sept. 22, a span of nine games.

Garcia (17-8), who went 6 2-3 innings, allowed two runs on six hits. He struck out five and walked three in matching the previous rookie highs for wins in a season by Mark Langston (1984) and Dave Fleming (1992).

Brett Laxton (0-1), whose father, Bill, was the first winning pitcher in Mariners' history, took the loss in his second major league start. He gave up five runs on five hits in 3 1-3 innings.

Hunter, bidding to become only the second Seattle player to lead the league in steals, scored the Mariners' first run without benefit of a hit. He walked in the first, stole second and third and scored on Ibanez's sacrifice fly.

Seattle had five steals on the day and got its third run in the second when catcher Ramon Hernandez, trying to nail Charles Gipson stealing second, bounced a throw into center field for an error, allowing Ryan Jackson to score from third.

Hunter added a two-run double in the fourth, stole third and scored on Rodriguez's single.

Ibanez connected off Kevin Jarvis leading off the fifth to put Seattle up 7-0. Bell had a two-run shot off Jarvis in the seventh and Rodriguez connected for his 42nd in the eighth, off Tim Kubinski.

Ben Grieve hit his 28th home run of the season in the sixth and Randy Velarde had a run-scoring double in the fifth for Oakland.

Notes: The homers by Rodriguez, Ibanez and Bell increased Seattle's major-league leading total to 244. ... Seattle was 12-31 versus AL playoff teams (New York, Texas, Cleveland and Boston) and 66-51 against everyone else in the league. ... Garcia is 6-1 in his last nine starts. ... Oakland trails the season series with Seattle 6-5. ... Despite their latest loss, the Athletics' 86 wins are the most by an Oakland club that did not make the playoffs since 1976. ... Harold Reynolds is the only other Seattle player to lead the league in steals with 60 in 1987.