Semien hits 3-run homer, Rangers beat A's 8-5 while Pederson slump reaches 0 for 41

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Marcus Semien hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs, leading the Texas Rangers over the Athletics 8-5 on Tuesday night.

Wyatt Langford, Josh Smith and Jake Burger hit solo homers for the Rangers on a night the teams combined for eight long balls.

Miguel Andujar, Lawrence Butler, Luis Urías and Brent Rooker hit solo homers for the A’s. Rooker’s was his seventh of the season.

Texas' Joc Pederson went 0 for 3 and extended his franchise-worst slide to 0 for 41 since a fourth-inning single at Cincinnati on April 2.

Baltimore’s Chris Davis set the record for longest hitless streak by a position player with an 0-for-54 skid that started on Sept. 14, 2018, and ended on April 13, 2019. The record hitless streak by any player was an 0-for-85 slide by pitcher Bob Buhl in 1962-63.

Patrick Corbin (2-0) won his second straight start, yielding two runs and seven hits in five-plus innings.

Luke Jackson got three straight groundouts for his seventh save, tied for the American League lead, before an announced crowd of 10,059 at Sutter Health Park.

Osvaldo Bido (2-2) allowed all four Texas homers — he had never given up more than one in an outing. He matched his career high by allowing eight runs and gave up eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Semien, batting fifth for only the third time in his 13-year career, broke open a 4-2 game in the fifth when he hit his second homer this season.

Texas manager Bruce Bochy shuffled his lineup after Texas was shut out in three of its previous 12 games and the Rangers responded by scoring more than six runs for the first time this year.

Rangers RHP Kumar Rocker (1-2, 6.38 ERA) will be starting on five days; rest after earning his first career win while A’s LHP JP Sears (2-2, 3.13 ERA) is looking to set a franchise record with his 43rd straight start without a wild pitch, one more than Catfish Hunter from 1972-73.

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Athletics Luis Urías (17) hits a solo home run against the Texas Rangers during the eighth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Texas Rangers Leody Taveras, center, high-fives catcher Kyle Higashioka (11) after their victory over the Athletics in a baseball game Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Texas Rangers third base Josh Jung (6) throws to first during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Texas Rangers pitcher Luke Jackson (77) delivers a pitch to an Athletics batter during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Texas Rangers pitcher Luke Jackson, right, and catcher Kyle Higashioka, left, celebrate after their victory against the Athletics after a baseball game Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Texas Rangers' Marcus Semien, right, celebrates with teammate Adolis García (53) after hitting a three-run home run against the Athletics during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Texas Rangers' Marcus Semien, right, celebrates with teammate Adolis García (53) after hitting a three-run home run against the Athletics during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was departing Florida on Sunday due to a “suspicious object,” according to the White House.

The object, which the White House did not describe, was discovered during security sweeps in advance of Trump’s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport.

“A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Sunday.

The president, when asked about the package by reporters, said, “I know nothing about it.”

Trump left his Palm Beach, Florida, club, Mar-a-Lago, around 6:20 p.m. for the roughly 10-minute drive to the airport, but took a circular route around the city to get there.

During the drive, police officers on motorcycles created a moving blockade for the motorcade, at one point almost colliding with the vans that accompanied Trump.

Air Force One was parked on the opposite side of the airport from where it is usually located and the lights outside the plane were turned off.

Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for U.S. Secret Service, said the secondary route was taken just as a precaution and that “that is standard protocol.”

President Donald Trump departs Trump International Golf Club in the presidential limousine, known as The Beast, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)