Jung hits game-ending homer after Pederson's pinch shot as Rangers beat Yankees

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Josh Jung hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning, after Joc Pederson's tying pinch-hit homer in the ninth, and the Texas Rangers beat the New York Yankees 8-5 on Monday night for their seventh consecutive home win.

Jung connected off Jake Bird (4-2) for his 11th homer, a 401-foot drive to left-center after Wyatt Langford was intentionally walked with two outs.

Pederson, hitting .132, tied it with a 408-foot shot off Devin Williams. That was the first homer since May 17 for Pederson, in only his eighth game since missing two months with a right hand fracture.

Danny Coulombe (2-0), the fourth Texas pitcher and in his third game since being acquired from Minnesota at the trade deadline Thursday, worked the 10th for his first Rangers victory.

Paul Goldschmidt led off the game with a home run and scored three times for the Yankees, who lost their fourth in a row. All-Star lefty Max Fried left with a 5-4 lead after scuffling through five innings but was denied a major league-best 13th win.

The Yankees, just swept in three games at Miami and likely playing their final game before Aaron Judge returns from the injured list, led 5-4 on Giancarlo Stanton's two-run homer in the fourth.

Fried needed 105 pitches and matched a season high by allowing eight hits in his 23rd start for the Yankees. He struck out seven but allowed four runs while six consecutive batters reached base in the second. His errant pickoff throw also allowed a run.

Goldschmidt hit New York's ninth leadoff homer this season — only the Los Angeles Dodgers (11) have more. Stanton has 10 homers in his 32 games since missing the first 70 games this season with elbow issues.

Coulombe fielded Austin Wells' comebacker to start an inning-ending 1-6-3 double play after walking a batter in the 10th.

Texas, coming off a 2-5 trip, has won 12 of its last 15 home games.

Nathan Eovaldi (9-3, 1.49 ERA), who was 5-0 with a 0.59 ERA in July, starts for Texas on Tuesday night. His last loss was a 1-0 game at New York on May 22. Will Warren (6-5, 4.64) goes for the Yankees.

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Texas Rangers' Ezequiel Duran hits a single that scored teammates Josh Jung and Josh Smith during the second inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

New York Yankees' Paul Goldschmidt, right, hits a home run in front of Texas Rangers catcher Jonah Heim, left, during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

New York Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried fields a groundout hit by Texas Rangers' Sam Haggerty during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Texas Rangers' Josh Jung, center, is doused after hitting a home run during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Texas Rangers' Josh Jung, right, celebrates after his home run as New York Yankees pitcher Jake Bird (59) walks to the dugout during the 10th inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets in Bangladesh on Saturday demanded that authorities protect them following recent attacks on two leading national dailies by mobs.

They said the media industry in the South Asian country is being systematically targeted in the interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. They said the administration failed to prevent attacks on the Daily Star, the country’s leading English-language daily, and the Prothom Alo, the largest Bengali-language newspaper, both based in Dhaka, the capital.

In December, angry mobs stormed the offices of the two newspapers and set fire to the buildings, trapping journalists and other staff inside, shortly after the death of a prominent Islamist activist.

The newspaper authorities blamed the authorities under the interim government for failing to adequately respond to the incidents despite repeated requests for help to disperse the mobs. Hours later, the trapped journalists who took shelter on the roof of the Daily Star newspaper were rescued. The buildings were looted. A leader of the Editors Council, an independent body of newspaper editors, was manhandled by the attackers when he arrived at the scene.

On the same day, liberal cultural centers were also attacked in Dhaka.

It was not clear why the protesters attacked the newspapers, whose editors are known to be closely connected with Yunus. Protests had been organized in recent months outside the offices of the dailies by Islamists who accused the newspapers of links with India.

On Saturday, the Editors Council and the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh jointly organized a conference where editors, journalist union leaders and journalists from across the country demanded that the authorities uphold the free press amid rising tensions ahead of elections in February.

Nurul Kabir, President of the Editors Council, said attempts to silence media and democratic institutions reflect a dangerous pattern.

Kabir, also the editor of the English-language New Age daily, said unity among journalists should be upheld to fight such a trend.

“Those who want to suppress institutions that act as vehicles of democratic aspirations are doing so through laws, force and intimidation,” he said.

After the attacks on the two dailies in December, an expert of the United Nations said that mob attacks on leading media outlets and cultural centers in Bangladesh were deeply alarming and must be investigated promptly and effectively.

“The weaponization of public anger against journalists and artists is dangerous at any time, and especially now as the country prepares for elections. It could have a chilling effect on media freedom, minority voices and dissenting views with serious consequences for democracy,” Irene Khan said in a statement.

Yunus came to power after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid a mass uprising in August, 2024. Yunus had promised stability in the country, but global human rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have blamed the government for its failure to uphold human and other civil rights. The Yunus-led regime has also been blamed for the rise of the radicals and Islamists.

Dozens of journalists are facing murder charges linked to the uprising on the grounds that they encouraged the government of Hasina to use lethal weapons against the protesters. Several journalists who are known to have close links with Hasina have been arrested and jailed under Yunus.

Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets gather at a conference demanding protection after recent attacks on two major newspapers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets gather at a conference demanding protection after recent attacks on two major newspapers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

FILE - A girl rescues books from a shop near the Prothom Alo daily newspaper which was set on fire by protesters after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu, File)