{"id":891162,"date":"2026-09-11T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:20:14","slug":"rangers-suffer-costly-loss-to-mariners-fall-two-games-back-of-wild-card-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891162\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers suffer costly loss to Mariners, fall two games back of wild-card spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Jacob deGrom retired his first 15 batters and struck out 12 for his highest total since 2022 but Julio Rodr\u00edguez hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Jakob Junis in a four-run seventh that lifted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/seattle-mariners\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"seattle-mariners\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/texas-rangers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"texas-rangers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Rangers<\/a> 4-3 Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom didn\u2019t allow a hit until Cole Young singled on a line drive off the pitcher\u2019s raised glove leading off the sixth. The two-time Cy Young Award winner struck out eight of his first nine batters for the fifth time and finished with his highest strikeout total since Sept. 19, 2022, for the New York Mets against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>He left with a 3-0 lead but Junis (1-3) hit Randy Arozarena with a pitch leading off the seventh, then allowed Dominic Canzone\u2019s RBI single and Cal Raleigh\u2019s single. Rodr\u00edguez hit a first-pitch sinker for his 21st home run this season.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom gave up one hit in six scoreless innings with one walk.<\/p>\n<p>Texas dropped three games behind AL West-leading Houston and two games back for the last AL wild card held by Cleveland. Seattle trails by five games for the last wild card.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays, who were off Thursday, are one back of Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Gilbert (12-9), who like deGrom attended Stetson, struck out 11 in seven innings and became Seattle\u2019s first pitcher with consecutive double-digit strikeout games since Canadian James Paxton in 2018. The combined strikeouts were the most by starting pitchers in the major leagues this season.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert also made a sliding tag of Wyatt Langford off a throw from Raleigh after a pitch bounced away from the catcher in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz walked a pair of batters with two outs in the ninth, then got Jake Burger to ground into a forceout for his 27th save in 36 chances. Young picked up the grounder behind second and just beat Evan Carter to the base, a call upheld in a video review.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: Start a three-game series Friday at Arizona, which starts RHP Merrill Kelly (9-13, 5.06).<\/p>\n<p>Mariners: RHP George Kirby (9-11, 4.18) starts Friday at the Athletics, who open with LHP Jeffrey Springs (4-13, 6.02).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Jacob deGrom retired his first 15 batters and struck out 12 for his highest total since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-891162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}