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ARLINGTON, Texas — \u2014 Kyle Higashioka<\/a> gave Texas the lead with a two-run homer, Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> recorded his 1,500th career strikeout during six solid innings and the Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners<\/a> 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Higashioka’s liner just over the wall in left field in the fifth put the Rangers in front 3-2 against George Kirby<\/a>, who lost to Texas for the first time in 11 career starts. The right-hander won eight of those first 10.<\/p>\n

Brendan Donovan<\/a> homered to right on the first pitch of the game in Eovaldi’s 300th career start, but the 36-year-old right-hander settled in and struck out seven, including Josh Naylor<\/a> for his 1,500th to end the first inning. Eovaldi (1-2) allowed six hits and two runs.<\/p>\n

Jacob Latz<\/a> finished two perfect innings with strikeouts of Naylor and Randy Arozarena<\/a>, who combined to go 0 for 8 with seven strikeouts from the 4-5 spots in the Seattle order. The left-hander set a franchise record by holding opponents hitless in 28 at-bats to start the season.<\/p>\n

Jakob Junis<\/a> pitched around consecutive singles to start the ninth for his second save in two games, matching his career total from 253 career appearances over nine seasons.<\/p>\n

Cal Raleigh<\/a> gave Seattle a 2-0 lead in the fifth with an RBI single, one night after the catcher who led the majors with 60 homers in 2025 went deep for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

Kirby (1-2) had a career ERA of 0.97 against Texas when Joc Pederson<\/a> and Evan Carter<\/a> opened the fifth with consecutive singles. Pederson advanced to second on Donovan’s throwing error at third base, then scored on Carter’s base hit before Higashioka drilled an 0-1 pitch to left.<\/p>\n

Kirby gave up six hits over eight innings in his second career complete game \u2014 both losses in eight-inning outings \u2014 as Mariners lost a series for the first time in 10 meetings with the Rangers going back to September 2023.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Mariners RHP Bryan Woo<\/a> (0-0, 1.38 ERA) faces Texas lefty MacKenzie Gore<\/a> (1-0, 3.97) in the series finale Wednesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas — \u2014 Kyle Higashioka gave Texas the lead with a two-run homer, Nathan Eovaldi recorded his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-670038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116368630747753572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670038","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=670038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}