MINNEAPOLIS -- Felix Hernandez stopped another slide for Seattle on Sunday. Hernandez pitched eight strong innings and Robinson Cano had four hits and the Mariners defeated the Minnesota Twins 6-2. The Mariners were winless since King Felixs previous start, but Hernandez (5-1) helped snap their four-game skid by giving up two runs and seven hits while striking out five and walking one. "Its always a confidence builder coming to the park when we know hes pitching. Typically we know that we dont have to put up too many runs to come out with a W," Mariners right fielder Michael Saunders said. Hernandez has been especially tough on the Twins in recent years. In his past four starts against Minnesota, he has pitched 34 innings and allowed three earned runs with 30 strikeouts. "Its the same old story -- really good stuff," Twins left fielder Jason Kubel said of facing Hernandez. "Hes just tough, one of the toughest guys to hit." The Twins, who have won three straight series and six of nine overall, jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third inning on a rally keyed by a successful replay challenge. With a man on first and nobody out, shortstop Danny Santana hit a dribbler to first baseman Justin Smoak, who flipped the ball to Hernandez covering at first. Santana was ruled out on the play, but replays showed that his foot hit the bag just before the pitcher arrived. Hernandez almost got out of the jam, striking out Brian Dozier and Joe Mauer on two-strike sliders, but Trevor Plouffe scored both runners with a two-out single to right-centre to put Minnesota on top 2-0. "I made one mistake," Hernandez said of his performance on Sunday. "I left that slider a little bit up against Plouffe and he got that hit. It was off the plate, but he put a good swing on it. "I was a little (angry). I did not put a zero on the scoreboard. After that I made better pitches." Meanwhile, after Twins starter Ricky Nolasco (2-4) breezed through the first three innings, the Mariners rallied by going deep in the count and making Nolasco work the second time through the order. They got one run back on Kyle Seagers RBI single in the fourth, but they also drove up Nolascos pitch count by making him throw 33 pitches that inning. Nolascos ability to avoid trouble ran out in the fifth. James Jones led off with an infield single, then scored on Michael Saunders triple to right field. Cano followed with a shot off the centre field wall for an RBI double that gave Seattle a 3-2 lead. By the end of the inning, Nolasco had thrown 100 pitches and was done for the day. And Hernandez had all the runs he needed to snap that losing streak. "With that guy over there, you have to play perfect baseball," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We didnt do that. We gave them a few too many chances, and when you give them chances like that, thats what happens." Saunders added a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning, Justin Smoak had an RBI double in the seventh and Cano scored on a wild pitch in the ninth as the Mariners pulled away. Mariners closer Fernando Rodney worked a scoreless ninth in a non-save situation to cap what Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon called an "ideal" day. "Our starter went eight and we got our closer some much-needed work," McClendon said. "It was perfect." Notes: McClendon said that the team will decide later this week whether 1B/OF Logan Morrison is ready to begin a minor-league rehab assignment. Morrison has missed five weeks with a strained right hamstring. ... Seattle DH Corey Hart left the game in the fourth inning after straining his left hamstring while stealing second base. ... Canos single in the fourth extended his on-base streak to 26 games, the longest in the major leagues this year. ... 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The suspension was backdated from July 2013, which leaves her eligible to compete in next years Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.The agency said Zaripovas results would be annulled for parts of 2011 and 2012, dates which include her Olympic victory but not her world championship gold medal in 2011.Also banned Friday was Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist Tatyana Chernova.Shortly after the new suspensions were announced, Russian athletics federation president Valentin Balakhnichev was quoted by Russian media as saying he could submit his resignation at a board meeting on Feb. 17.I will take a decision on my own resignation or another form of suspension from duties, he said.The Russian anti-doping agencys chief executive, Ramil Khabriev, said in a statement that Zaripovas biological passport data indicated the use of a banned method for replicating high-altitude conditions. He did not elaborate.If Zaripova is stripped of her London victory, a decision that lies with the IAAF and IOC, the gold medal could go to original second-place finisher Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia. Sofia Assefa of Ethiopia won the bronze.Zaripovas gold would become the fourth London Olympic medal to be reallocated and the second gold after that of Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk.The Russian agency, known by the acronym Rusada, said Chernova had tested positive for the banned steroid oralturinabol when a sample from the 2009 world championships was retested.ddddddddddddChernova was given a two-year ban backdated to 2013, with results annulled between August 2009 and August 2011. She keeps her 2011 world title.Of the 22 Russians who originally won athletics medals at the 2012 Olympics, six have since been banned for doping. One Olympic medal, a silver won by discus thrower Darya Pishchalnikova, was reallocated.The Zaripova and Chernova cases come 10 days after doping bans were imposed on five Russian race-walkers, including three Olympic champions.The walkers bans included periods of annulled results which critics alleged may have been selected by Russian officials to preserve Olympic medals. The Australian athletics federation, whose race-walker Jared Tallent won silver behind a Russian athlete who has since been banned, is pushing for an appeal.Zaripovas ban may also prove contentious. She had results annulled from June 20 to August 20, 2011, a period ending seven days before the start of competition in the 3,000 steeplechase at the 2011 world championships. That means Zaripovas gold medal in that event is not affected.Two more Russians, 800-meter gold medal winner Maria Savinova and bronze medallist Ekaterina Poistogova, were featured in a German TV documentary last month which said they were recorded admitting to taking banned substances.The World Anti-Doping Agency and the IAAF have opened investigations into the accusations made by the ARD program, including claims that Russian athletics bosses oversaw systematic doping and Rusada officials covered up positive tests.Savinova and Poistogova have not been suspended and remain free to compete. ' ' '