ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 MacKenzie Gore allowed one hit in five innings, Brandon Nimmo and Josh Smith had two hits each and the Texas Rangers shut out the Seattle Mariners 3-0 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Texas scored all three runs in the fifth inning to complete a three-game series sweep.<\/p>\n
Gore (2-0) fanned nine and walked two. Bryan Woo (0-1) took the loss after allowing three runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 on five hits in five innings.<\/p>\n
Danny Jansen and Smith opened the fifth inning with consecutive singles for the Rangers before Ezequiel Duran followed with another single to load the bases.<\/p>\n
Nimmo then reached on a fielder\u2019s choice that scored Jansen and Smith as Seattle committed a throwing error trying to turn a double play. Duran advanced to third, and Nimmo moved to second on the misplay to give Texas a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Corey Seager added a sacrifice fly later in the inning to score Duran and extend the advantage to 3-0.<\/p>\n
Seattle managed just two hits \u2014 singles by Mitch Garver and Cole Young \u2014 and struck out 13 times.<\/p>\n
Chris Martin and Luis Curvelo each worked scoreless relief innings before Cole Winn pitched the ninth to complete the two-hit shutout.<\/p>\n
The loss was the Mariners fifth in a row.<\/p>\n
Both teams have an off day before resuming play on Friday. RHP Emerson Hancock (1-1, 0.71 ERA) gets the start for the Mariners in a series opener against the Houston Astros, while RHP Kumar Rocker (0-1, 3.60 ERA) takes the mound for the Rangers against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 MacKenzie Gore allowed one hit in five innings, Brandon Nimmo and Josh Smith had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,32775,92384,90505,40381,84825,92382,39233,39234,57463,92381,57328,92380,92383,23681,202,196,42094,942,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-240956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-brandon-nimmo","12":"tag-bryan-woo","13":"tag-chris-martin","14":"tag-corey-seager","15":"tag-danny-jansen","16":"tag-emerson-hancock","17":"tag-ezequiel-duran","18":"tag-josh-smith","19":"tag-kumar-rocker","20":"tag-luis-curvelo","21":"tag-mackenzie-gore","22":"tag-mariners-ranger-score","23":"tag-mitch-garver","24":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","25":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","26":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}