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04/24 22:21 CDT Garca and Carter hit back-to-back homers and Rangers beat
Mariners 5-1
Garca and Carter hit back-to-back homers and Rangers beat Mariners 5-1
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) --- Adolis Garca and Evan Carter hit Texas' first
back-to-back home runs this season in the fourth inning and the Rangers beat
the Seattle Mariners 5-1 on Wednesday night.
Garca's team-high seventh homer barely cleared the wall in straight-away
center field and tipped off the glove of Julio Rodrguez. Garca stood near
first base apparently thinking Rodrguez made the catch until he saw the center
fielder walk toward the infield, turn and look over the fence.
Carter hit a triple to drive home Garca in the seventh in an inning kept alive
on an obstruction call at first base against Mariners reliever Austin Voth when
Nathaniel Lowe appeared to hit into a 3-6-3 double play.
Texas scored twice in the sixth when Jonah Heim singled into the right field
corner and Mitch Haniger committed a two-base error.
Jonathan Hernndez (1-0), making his first appearance of the season, retired
four of the five batters he faced. Hernndez was sidelined with a lat strain
until being activated from the 15-day injured list on Tuesday.
The Mariners left nine runners on base and were 1 for 11 with runners in
scoring position.
Josh Rojas scored the Mariners' run in the first inning on a fielder's choice
grounder by Haniger after opening the game with a triple. Rojas led off for the
first time this season after J.P. Crawford was a late scratch because of right
oblique soreness.
Starter Jon Gray allowed one run on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings. Gray, who
returned to the rotation after pitching 1 2/3 relief innings last Saturday at
Atlanta, struck out seven and walked one.
The Mariners Bryce Miller (3-2) gave up the two homers and four hits in
four-plus innings.
Texas' Corey Seager left the game following the seventh inning with a left shin
contusion after being hit by a pitch.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Mariners: C Cal Raleigh sat out following a tooth extraction.
Rangers: RHP Max Scherzer (back surgery) pitched 2 1/3 innings for Triple-A
Round Rock in his first rehab outing this year. He allowed three runs on five
hits, two of them home runs, struck out four and threw 52 pitches. ... RHP
Austin Pruitt (right knee medial meniscus injury) was placed on the 15-day
injured list retroactive to Sunday.
UP NEXT
Mariners RHP Luis Castillo (1-4, 4.40 ERA), who has allowed 18 hits but fanned
19 in 14 2/3 career innings vs. Texas, will start the series finale on
Thursday. Rangers LHP Andrew Heaney (0-2, 6.35) has pitched five innings in one
of his four previous starts.
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