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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Mariners rookie leadoff hitter Brad Miller put on an impressive power display for his hometown fans. Miller homered twice to help Seattle send the Tampa Bay Rays to their sixth straight loss with a 5-4 victory on Tuesday night. Around 50 family members and friends were present to see Miller, who is from the Orlando, Fla. area, play for the first time at Tropicana Field. "It was awesome," Miller said. "Before the game, getting to see, like, every coach Ive ever had since I was 5, and my best friend, my parents. And then to go out there and get things going and finish it off with a win, that was perfect. That was a lot of fun." Miller has four home runs this season, which have come in a pair of two-homer games. He connected for his first two big league homers on July 19 at Houston. "You could hear them, a lot of Miller fans up there," acting Seattle manager Robby Thompson said. Tampa Bay also got two homers from its leadoff hitter, Ben Zobrist. According to the Rays, it is just the third time since 1916, when records are available, that both leadoff hitters had multihomer games. The others were June 5, 1994 (Minnesotas Chuck Knoblauch and Tony Phillips of Detroit) and July 8, 1965 (Houstons Joe Morgan and Felipe Alou of the Milwaukee Braves). After Justin Smoak ended Chris Archers night with a leadoff single in the sixth, Dustin Ackley gave Seattle a 5-4 lead on a triple off Wesley Wright. "That was a big turning point, especially with our bullpen," Ackley said. Zobrist got the Rays even at 4 on his second homer of the game, a two-run shot in the fifth against Erasmo Ramirez (4-0), who allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings. Danny Farquhar pitched the ninth for his fifth save. The Mariners bullpen allowed one hit over 3 2-3 scoreless innings. Smoak had a two-run single through a defensive shift as the Mariners went ahead 3-2 in the fourth. "Thats what happens when youre losing," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "You get plays like that going in their favour against us. When you talk about good baseball luck and bad baseball luck, it really exists and right now were getting some very bad baseball luck." Millers second homer of the game, a fifth-inning shot, made it 4-2. According to STATS, Miller is the third player in the divisional era (1969) to record his first four homers on two, two-homer games, joining Torontos J.P Arencibia (2010-11) and Carlos May (1969) of the Chicago White Sox. Archer (6-5), who left his previous start last Wednesday at Arizona after 1 2-3 innings due to right forearm tightness, gave up five runs and nine hits over five-plus innings. "Honestly, Ill take full responsibility for that loss, because if I execute a couple pitches in a couple of key situations, those are the games that we win," Archer said. "We score four runs, we win because we have good pitching." Miller opened the game with his first leadoff homer and the Mariners eighth this season, which extended the team record. Zobrist tied it at 1 in the bottom of the first on his first career leadoff homer and 100th overall in the majors. The Rays took a 2-1 lead later in the inning on James Loneys RBI single. It was the first major league game since Aug. 31, 2011, when St. Louis Rafael Furcal and Milwaukees Corey Hart did it, where both teams hit leadoff home runs, according to STATS. It last occurred in the AL on Aug. 17, 2006, in games between Baltimore (Brian Roberts) and New York (Johnny Damon), and Kansas City (David DeJesus) against Chicago (Pablo Ozuna). NOTES: Tampa Bay RHP Alex Cobb is expected to make his first big league start Thursday night since getting hit in the head by a liner on June 15. ... The Mariners plan to look at Ackley in centre. "Were trying to see what we have out there with Ackley," Thompson said. ... 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Sydney coach John Longmire admits he had to switch to plan B after star forward Lance Franklins injury scare in Hobart.But his back-up strategy worked, producing a nine-point victory over North Melbourne on Saturday afternoon to send the Swans to the top of the AFL ladder.In overcast conditions at Bellerive Oval, Sydney led at every break and finished 12.13 (85) to 10.16 (76) winners.Franklin left the ground in the 13th minute with a hip complaint after a collision with Kangaroo Scott Thompson.We had to change it up a little bit different once Lance got hurt, Longmire said.The shift brought forward some of the Swans midfielders, with nine players booting goals as Franklin took a back seat, managing just one behind.Gary Rohan, Jarrad McVeigh and Dan Hannebery finished with two goals each. Luke Parker earned a nod from the coach with his 31 disposals, as did rover Tom Mitchell and half-back Callum Mills.Franklin returned after a short absence, but his comeback was brief before again heading to the sheds for treatment.Hes OK, Longmire said.He was sore there for a bit of the game, clearly, thats why he ended up coming off twice. But I thought in the last quarter he actually contributed pretty well.The knock isnt expected to prevent Franklin playing against Richmond next Saturday.Longmire wwants greater consistency from his side, which was dominated at times by North, including through most of the second term.ddddddddddddWe can improve a bit on todays performance and thats what we will be trying to do next week - trying to make sure we keep sharpening up all areas of our game, he said.But you want to get to this point of the year with that in front of you, which is to be able to control your own destiny ... in the last game of the year at the SCG and thats what were going to try and do.The Kangaroos have managed just three wins from the past 11 rounds, and coach Brad Scott was blunt in his assessment.We werent able to capitalise on our opportunities well enough, he said, adding that three easy goals they failed to kick proved costly.The game ended their streak of eight victories at their second home in Hobart, and also likely puts Thompson back on the injury list.The veteran defender, on his return from a groin complaint, left the field at the end of the first quarter, and was later seen on the sideline holding ice on his groin.Stalwart Brent Harvey was the standout for the Kangaroos, finishing with three goals, two behinds and 32 disposals. 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