Sunday's game between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners featured the first Major League matchup between a pair of ex-Japanese teammates when Masahiro Tanaka and Hisashi Iwakuma took the mound.

Tanaka and Iwakuma were teammates with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

The Yankees beat the Mariners 4-3.

"I'm extremely satisfied being able to get that win," Tanaka said through an interpreter. "Obviously facing against a former teammate, that was one thing, but another thing was that I was able to help stop the four-game skid. In that sense, I think today was a good day."