The Texas Rangers scored three runs while the Seattle Mariners scored zero runs.<\/p>\n
We had ourselves a real Shed classic today with two good starters on the mound and runs at a premium. Zeros were traded between Texas\u2019 MacKenzie Gore and Seattle\u2019s Bryan Woo before the Rangers finally broke through with a crooked number inning halfway through the game.<\/p>\n
The Rangers probably should have had more runs as they hit a couple of balls in the early innings that would have been home runs in more than half of the parks in the league. As we know, no balls hit at The Shed go for home runs so they were forced to wait until they could manufacture a rally aided by Seattle\u2019s questionable gloves.<\/p>\n
That rally came in the bottom of the 5th when, after a quick out and Woo cruising, the bottom of the order made something happen. Danny Jansen reached via an infield single on a play that third baseman Brendan Donovan couldn\u2019t make. Josh Smith followed with a sharp single and then No. 9 hitter Ezequiel Duran came back from an 0-2 count to single to load the bases.<\/p>\n
With the top of the order up, the Rangers had their chance to score the runs that would make starter Gore the pitcher of record and Brandon Nimmo did just that with an assist from Seattle first baseman Connor Joe. Filling in for usual first baseman Josh Naylor on a getaway day in Arlington, Joe attempted a force play at home but his throw was wide of catcher Mitch Garver, who was in behind the plate to get Cal Raleigh off his feet.<\/p>\n
Jansen scored on the play and Smith came around on the errant throw as well. A Corey Seager sac fly followed to give Texas a 3-0 lead. Following that breakthrough with Seager\u2019s flyout accounting for the only RBI, the Rangers turned to the bullpen needing another four innings from their relievers.<\/p>\n
Chris Martin pitched a scoreless frame and then Luis Curvelo made his 2026 debut with two scoreless innings. Skip Schumaker turned to Cole Winn in the 9th for a scoreless inning and save and the Rangers have their first sweep of the season while finishing their homestand 3-3 despite beginning it 0-3.<\/p>\n
Texas now sits at 7-5 and are atop the American League West while the swept Mariners begin their much-hyped season at 4-9.<\/p>\n
Player of the Game: Josh Smith had a couple of hits and made perhaps the best contact for Texas on the day. He was flat out robbed of a home run by former Ranger Rob Refsnyder in the 3rd. Brandon Nimmo also had a couple of hits and technically produced the winning run with his grounder that Joe threw away.<\/p>\n
However, despite a shorter outing than would have been liked, starter Gore was the standout for Texas today.<\/p>\n
The young lefty was nearly unhittable during his five innings of work with his only hit allowed coming after a dropped popup in foul territory by Jansen off the bat of old friend Garver. Otherwise, Gore struck out nine and had the Mariners looking silly with swing-and-miss stuff.<\/p>\n
Gore did walk a couple in the first inning before he had settled in and that contributed to his high pitch total early, but overall he was excellent and has had a superb start (2-0, 2.76 ERA) to his tenure with Texas.<\/p>\n
Also, just in general the pitching staff was fantastic with only two hits all game. Overall, the Rangers allowed just three runs total in this series against Seattle and have allowed just 12 runs in their first six games at home this year including no more than two runs in any of the previous five games.<\/p>\n
They may not be scoring much at The Shed, but they\u2019re not giving up many runs either.<\/p>\n
Up Next: The Rangers get a day off on Thursday to rest up their bullpen before opening a series on the West Coast against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a matchup between the two most recent World Series winning franchises. RHP Kumar Rocker is expected to make the start for Texas in Friday\u2019s opener opposite RHP Tyler Glasnow for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The first pitch in Friday\u2019s opener from UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium is scheduled for 9:10 pm CDT and will be aired on the Rangers Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored three runs while the Seattle Mariners scored zero runs. We had ourselves a real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,38560,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-670947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-game-day-threads","10":"tag-mariners","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-mariners","14":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371174428742997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670947","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=670947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}