{"id":668261,"date":"2026-04-07T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668261\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:40","slug":"jake-burgers-rbi-double-pushes-rangers-past-mariners-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668261\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Burger&#8217;s RBI double pushes Rangers past Mariners 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jake Burger hit a tie-breaking RBI double over the outstretched glove of left fielder Randy Arozarena in the sixth inning, Jacob deGrom and five Texas relievers combined for a two-hitter and the Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 2-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers snapped a four-game losing streak and won for the first time in four home games.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners have lost three consecutive games and five of their last six.<\/p>\n<p>Burger\u2019s fly to deep left scored Corey Seager, who singled and advanced to second base on a wild pitch by Logan Gilbert (0-2).<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Beeks (1-0) pitched a scoreless sixth inning as the first Rangers reliever following deGrom. Jakob Junis earned his first save of the season with a scoreless ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues last season with 60 home runs, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mariners-cal-raleigh-77ea4614826b439e109562725ea3d699\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit his first of the season<\/a> in the first inning capping a 12-pitch at-bat during which he fouled off six pitches with two strikes. His longest drought last season was eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Seager tied the score in the bottom of the first with a single to right field that scored Wyatt Langford, who doubled into the left-field corner.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh\u2019s homer was the only hit allowed by deGrom over five innings in his 250th career start, ranking 18th among active pitchers. The 37-year-old struck out six and walked one throwing 78 pitches. He has two no-decisions this season.<\/p>\n<p>Burger, batting .317, has hits in nine of 10 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert gave up two runs on six hits with no walks while striking out five in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mariners RHP George Kirby (1-1, 3.75 ERA) will start Tuesday against Rangers RHP Nathan Eovaldi (0-2, 11.42), who didn\u2019t make it through five innings in either of his previous starts.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jake Burger hit a tie-breaking RBI double over the outstretched glove of left fielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3297,384,465,403,400,9975,657,466,4,256,394,1456,149,65,185,1567,69,3240,5099,10050,414,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-668261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cal-raleigh","10":"tag-corey-seager","11":"tag-george-kirby","12":"tag-jacob-degrom","13":"tag-jake-burger","14":"tag-jake-junis","15":"tag-jalen-beeks","16":"tag-logan-gilbert","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-mlb-baseball","19":"tag-nathan-eovaldi","20":"tag-randy-arozarena","21":"tag-rangers","22":"tag-seattle-mariners","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-texas-rangers","26":"tag-texasrangers","27":"tag-tx-state-wire","28":"tag-wa-state-wire","29":"tag-washington","30":"tag-wyatt-langford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116363333780487857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}