Jacob deGrom gets his 1st win in 2 years while Rangers have best offensive game to beat A's 15-2

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom struck out seven over six scoreless innings for his first win in more than two years and the Texas Rangers had their best offensive game this season to beat the Athletics 15-2 on Tuesday night.

The 36-year-old deGrom (1-1) had gone 737 days since also beating the A's on April 23, 2023, then made only one more start in his debut season with the Rangers before Tommy John surgery.

After the full squad was required to be on the field for batting practice before the game, the Rangers set season highs for runs and hits with 18. They entered last in the majors with 91 runs, and had scored only 12 total the previous six games.

Texas failed to score in the first after Jacob Lopez (0-1) walked the bases loaded, but got runs in each of the next three innings. Jake Burger and Leody Taveras had back-to-back RBI singles with two outs in the third to make it 3-0 and chase the A's starter.

Adolis García and Wyatt Langford both had bases-clearing doubles in an eight-run sixth to make it 12-0, and deGrom didn’t return after 65 pitches (47 strikes).

The right-hander, who gave up only four singles without a walk, had gotten only nine runs of support his first five starts this season. He made three shortened starts in his return from surgery at the end of last season.

Dane Dunning was credited with a three-inning save, though he gave up a two-run homer to Shea Langeliers in the seventh.

Three different Rangers has three-run doubles. Kyle Higashioka added one in the eighth.

After drawing only eight walks their previous six games, the Rangers had nine against five Athletics pitchers, and were 10 of 22 with runners in scoring position.

Texas right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 2.21 ERA) pitches Wednesday. Luis Severino (1-3, 3.49) goes for the A's.

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Texas Rangers' Jake Burger runs the bases against the Athletics during the sixth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)

Texas Rangers' Leody Taveras bats against the Athletics during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)

Texas Rangers' Josh Jung celebrates with Texas Rangers' Jake Burger (21) in front of the dugout after runs scored in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)

Athletics' Jacob Lopez is pulled during the third inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)

Texas Rangers' Wyatt Langford (36) slides into home base during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)

Texas Rangers' Jacob deGrom pitches against the Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias))

Texas Rangers' Jacob deGrom pitches against the Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)