Bryan Woo pitched seven strong innings for his first victory of the season and was backed by three home runs as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Texas Rangers 5-2 on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Rob Refsnyder, J.P. Crawford and Randy Arozarena went deep to account for all the runs for the Mariners, who took two of three games from their American League West rivals.<\/p>\n
Woo (1-2) allowed two runs on four hits. The right-hander walked one and struck out six. Andres Munoz struck out three in the ninth \u2014 the first reached base on a wild pitch \u2014 and got Evan Carter to ground out to first to earn his third save.<\/p>\n
The Rangers\u2019 Brandon Nimmo lined Woo\u2019s first pitch of the game into right for a single, but he was erased when Wyatt Langford grounded into an inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n
The Rangers didn\u2019t have another baserunner until Josh Smith lined a one-out single to right in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Texas finally got to Woo in the seventh as Corey Seager led off with a walk, Langford singled on a soft liner to left and, with one out, Joc Pederson was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Josh Jung\u2019s sacrifice fly to right spoiled the shutout bid and Carter\u2019s double into the right field corner made it 5-2. Woo got Smith to ground to second to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Rangers left-hander MacKenzie Gore (2-2) gave up five runs on seven hits over five innings with one walk and five strikeouts. Gore, who didn\u2019t allow a hit on a curveball during his first four starts of the season, allowed four off that pitch Sunday \u2014 including the homers by Crawford and Arozarena.<\/p>\n
Refsnyder, who came into the game 0-for-18 for the season, lined Gore\u2019s first-pitch fastball over the left field wall leading off the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n
The Mariners added to their lead in the second as Mitch Garver drew a leadoff walk and, one out later, Crawford went deep to right to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
With two outs in the fifth, Julio Rodriguez lined a single to left and Arozarena homered off the left field pole to extend the lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Woo pitched seven strong innings for his first victory of the season and was backed by three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-679633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rangers","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-rangers","13":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116435800049507623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679633","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=679633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}