Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) - Chris Young tossed five effective innings to guide the Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 win against the Cleveland Indians in the opener of a three-game set on Friday.

Young (7-4), who has reached the seven-win mark for the first time since 2008, allowed just one run on four hits with four strikeouts to improve to 5-1 at Safeco Field this season.

Endy Chavez had a solo homer, Kyle Seager added three hits with an RBI and Brad Miller drove in a run for the Mariners, who have won nine of their last 12 contests.

Trevor Bauer (2-4), who remains winless in eight career road starts, surrendered three runs on nine hits while fanning four in 6 1/3 innings.

"As he got into the game, I thought he got much better. We just weren't able to score," Indians manager Terry Francona said.

Michael Bourn collected three hits with an RBI and Michael Brantley drove in a run for the Indians, who have lost five of six.

Seattle jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first. Chavez led off with a single and stole second with two outs. Seager then drove him home with a base hit into center field.

Brantley delivered a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to left that scored David Murphy in the third.

Saunders liner to left kept the fourth inning alive. After a Dustin Ackley walk, Miller dropped a ball in center to put the M's ahead 2-1.

Chavez led off the seventh with his first home run of the season to extend Seattle's lead to 3-1.

"I'm glad to hit a home run in that situation and put us in a better situation to win the game," Chavez said.

After a Carlos Santana two-out walk, Jason Kipnis' double in the eighth put two runners in scoring position. Charlie Furbush produced a Lonnie Chisenhall groundout to keep it a two-run game.

Nick Swisher singled off Fernando Rodney with one out in the ninth. Swisher advanced to second on a groundout and scored on Bourn's RBI base hit to right. Rodney nailed down his 22nd save of the season on an Asdrubal Cabrera pop out to end the game.