PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte hit a three-run homer that snapped a seventh-inning tie and the Arizona Diamondbacks ended the Texas Rangers' six-game win streak with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night.
Jorge Barrosa and Jordan Lawlar singled off Hoby Milner (2-4) to begin the seventh. Marte sent a 414-foot drive to left-center for his 25th homer this season and a 5-2 lead.
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Texas Rangers' Michael Helman walks back to the dugout after being called out on strikes against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte celebrates his three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Texas Rangers pitcher Hoby Milner, right, pauses on the pitcher's mound after giving up a three-run home run to Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte, left, during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte connects for a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Marte has gone deep in four straight games against the Rangers.
Texas (72-68) remained 1 1/2 games back of Seattle for the final American League wild card.
Nabil Crismatt pitched 6 1/3 innings in his fourth career start and allowed two runs on seven hits. Jalen Beeks (5-1) got the final two outs in the seventh for the win, and rookie Taylor Rashi allowed a run in two innings for his second multi-inning save in two major league appearances.
Michael Helman led off the Texas third with his first triple before scoring on Wyatt Langford's sacrifice fly for a 1-0 lead. Cody Freeman reached on a two-out infield single in the fourth and scored from first on Alejandro Osuna's bloop single to center to make it 2-0.
Rangers starter Jacob Latz cruised along until issuing walks to Corbin Carroll and Gabriel Moreno with one out in the sixth. Luis Curvelo gave up an RBI single to Blaze Alexander and a sacrifice fly by Ildemaro Vargas that tied it at 2.
Latz, who replaced injured Nathan Eovaldi in the rotation, was charged with two runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Beeks walked his first two batters in the seventh before retiring Helman on a flyout and Josh Smith on a grounder to keep it tied at 2.
Texas hasn't made an error in a franchise-record 19 straight games.
Rangers RHP Jack Leiter (9-7, 3.77 ERA) starts Wednesday's rubber game opposite Diamondbacks RHP Zac Gallen (10-13, 4.94).
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Texas Rangers' Michael Helman walks back to the dugout after being called out on strikes against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte celebrates his three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Texas Rangers pitcher Hoby Milner, right, pauses on the pitcher's mound after giving up a three-run home run to Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte, left, during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte connects for a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.
SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station.
“It’s so good to be home,” said NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, the capsule commander.
It was an unexpected finish to a mission that began in August and left the orbiting lab with only one American and two Russians on board. NASA and SpaceX said they would try to move up the launch of a fresh crew of four; liftoff is currently targeted for mid-February.
Cardman and NASA’s Mike Fincke were joined on the return by Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov. Officials have refused to identify the astronaut who had the health problem or explain what happened, citing medical privacy.
While the astronaut was stable in orbit, NASA wanted them back on Earth as soon as possible to receive proper care and diagnostic testing. The entry and splashdown required no special changes or accommodations, officials said, and the recovery ship had its usual allotment of medical experts on board. It was not immediately known when the astronauts would fly from California to their home base in Houston. Platonov’s return to Moscow was also unclear.
NASA stressed repeatedly over the past week that this was not an emergency. The astronaut fell sick or was injured on Jan. 7, prompting NASA to call off the next day’s spacewalk by Cardman and Fincke, and ultimately resulting in the early return. It was the first time NASA cut short a spaceflight for medical reasons. The Russians had done so decades ago.
The space station has gotten by with three astronauts before, sometimes even with just two. NASA said it will be unable to perform a spacewalk, even for an emergency, until the arrival of the next crew, which has two Americans, one French and one Russian astronaut.
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Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui is helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman is helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 capsule being taken into the recovery vessel after crew members re entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Mike Fincke getting helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows NASA Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui being helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows Russian astronaut Oleg Platonov being helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, left, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Zena Cardman being helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon departing from the International Space Station shortly after undocking with four NASA Crew-11 members inside on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This photo provided by NASA shows clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui gathering for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows recovery vessels approaching the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 capsule to evacuate one of the crew members after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 members re entering the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 members re entering the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
