ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jake Burger hit a tie-breaking RBI double over the outstretched glove of left fielder Randy Arozarena in the sixth inning, Jacob deGrom and five Texas relievers combined for a two-hitter and the Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 2-1 on Monday night.
The Rangers snapped a four-game losing streak and won for the first time in four home games.
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Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert throws a pitch to the Texas Rangers during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh connects on a solo home run off Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Seattle Mariners outfielder Randy Arozarena (56) chases a double by Texas Rangers designated hitter Joc Pederson, not visible, during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Texas Rangers outfielders Wyatt Langford, left, and Brandon Nimmo react after their team defeated the Seattle Mariners 2-1 during a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom throws a pitch to the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
The Mariners have lost three consecutive games and five of their last six.
Burger’s fly to deep left scored Corey Seager, who singled and advanced to second base on a wild pitch by Logan Gilbert (0-2).
Jalen Beeks (1-0) pitched a scoreless sixth inning as the first Rangers reliever following deGrom. Jakob Junis earned his first save of the season with a scoreless ninth.
Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues last season with 60 home runs, hit his first of the season in the first inning capping a 12-pitch at-bat during which he fouled off six pitches with two strikes. His longest drought last season was eight games.
Seager tied the score in the bottom of the first with a single to right field that scored Wyatt Langford, who doubled into the left-field corner.
Raleigh’s homer was the only hit allowed by deGrom over five innings in his 250th career start, ranking 18th among active pitchers. The 37-year-old struck out six and walked one throwing 78 pitches. He has two no-decisions this season.
Burger, batting .317, has hits in nine of 10 games this season.
Gilbert gave up two runs on six hits with no walks while striking out five in six innings.
Mariners RHP George Kirby (1-1, 3.75 ERA) will start Tuesday against Rangers RHP Nathan Eovaldi (0-2, 11.42), who didn’t make it through five innings in either of his previous starts.
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Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert throws a pitch to the Texas Rangers during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh connects on a solo home run off Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Seattle Mariners outfielder Randy Arozarena (56) chases a double by Texas Rangers designated hitter Joc Pederson, not visible, during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Texas Rangers outfielders Wyatt Langford, left, and Brandon Nimmo react after their team defeated the Seattle Mariners 2-1 during a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom throws a pitch to the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Japan said Tuesday a Japanese national who had been detained in Iran since January has been released.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters that his release was confirmed Monday.
The person released is believed to be a journalist at Japan’s NHK public television.
Kihara said the person is in good health but declined to give further details.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges Monday as his ultimatum to make a deal ticked closer, after Tehran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war.
“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Trump said. He suggested that his Tuesday 8 p.m. EDT deadline was final, saying he'd already given Iran enough extensions.
The U.S. has told Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz to all shipping traffic or see power plants and bridges wiped out, sparking warnings about possible war crimes.
Israel piled on pressure by attacking a major petrochemical plant and killing the intelligence chief for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Tehran with its rejection conveyed its own, 10-point plant to end the fighting through Pakistan, a key mediator, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said.
“We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won’t be attacked again,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of Iran’s diplomatic mission in Cairo, told The Associated Press. He said Iran no longer trusts the Trump administration after the U.S. bombed the Islamic Republic twice during previous rounds of talks.
A regional official involved in talks said efforts had not collapsed. “We are still talking to both sides,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door diplomacy.
And even Trump said negotiations with Iran continued.
Activists reported a new wave of strikes on Tehran early Tuesday. Israel claimed credit but offered no immediate details on what had been targeted.
Trump has issued ultimatums to Iran before, only to find ways to back off. But he was more explicit this time on plans to follow through.
“Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night,” he said, and all power plants will be “burning, exploding and never to be used again.”
Asked if he was concerned about accusations of war crimes, Trump responded, “No, not at all." He suggested that Iranians want the U.S. to carry out its threats because it could lead to the end of their current leadership.
Iranian citizens are “willing to suffer," he said, "in order to have freedom.” But there has been no sign of an uprising in Iran as residents shelter from bombardment.
International warnings piled up against expanded strikes. “Any attack on civilian infrastructure is a violation of international law and a very clear one,” United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric later told journalists.
Egyptian, Pakistani and Turkish mediators had sent Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff a proposal calling for the ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, two Mideast officials told the AP. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private negotiations.
Iranian and Omani officials also were working on a mechanism for administrating the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped in peacetime. Iran’s grip on it has shaken the world economy.
Tehran has refused to let U.S. and Israeli vessels through after they started the war on Feb. 28.
Israel struck a key petrochemical plant in the South Pars natural gas field, saying it was aimed at eliminating a major source of revenue for Iran. The field, the world’s largest, is shared with Qatar and is Iran’s biggest source of domestic energy for its 93 million people.
The strike appeared to be separate from Trump’s threats. An earlier Israeli attack there in March prompted Iran to target energy infrastructure in other Middle East countries, a major escalation.
Israel also killed the head of intelligence for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, according to Iranian state media. And Israel said it killed the leader of the Revolutionary Guard’s undercover unit in its expeditionary Quds Force, Asghar Bakeri.
“We will continue to hunt them down one by one,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said of top Iranian officials.
New Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who still has not been seen or heard in public, issued a rare statement expressing condolences over Khademi. Israeli strikes have killed dozens of top Iranian leaders, including Khamenei’s father.
Israel’s military also said it struck three Tehran airports overnight — Bahram, Mehrabad and Azmayesh — hitting dozens of helicopters and aircraft it said belonged to the Iranian Air Force.
A Tehran resident said “constantly there is the sound of bombs, air defenses, drones,” speaking on condition of anonymity for her safety. Another detailed taking sleeping pills to get through nightly bombardments, and said people worry about power, gas and water cuts.
Smoke rose near Tehran’s Azadi Square after an airstrike hit the grounds of the Sharif University of Technology. Multiple countries have sanctioned the university for its work with the military, particularly on Iran’s ballistic missile program.
Authorities and Iranian state media reported at least 29 people killed across the country by strikes.
In Lebanon, where Israel has launched air attacks and a ground invasion that it says target the Iran-linked Hezbollah militia, an airstrike hit an apartment in Ain Saadeh, a predominately Christian town east of Beirut. It killed an official in the Lebanese Forces, a Christian political party strongly opposed to Hezbollah, his wife and another woman.
More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began, but the government has not updated the toll for days.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 1 million people have been displaced. Eleven Israeli soldiers have died there.
In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 23 have been reported dead in Israel and 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
Weissert reported from Washington, Magdy from Cairo and Gambrell from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Munir Ahmed in Islamabad, Isabel DeBre in Ain Saadeh, Lebanon, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Amir-Hussein Radjy in Cairo and Josh Boak and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this story.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
People drive their motorbikes past a billboard that shows a graphic depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Nadine Naameh reacts as she looks at the damage to her home following an Israeli strike in the village of Ain Saadeh in the mountains east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A man works at the site of Sunday's Israeli strike on a building in Beirut's Jnah neighborhood, Lebanon, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Rescue workers and military personnel carry a body of a victim from the rubble of a residential building a day after it was struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Pedestrians look at a destroyed building within the Grand Hosseiniyeh, with the mosque visible in the background, which officials at the site say was hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes Tuesday, in Zanjan, Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A man sits beside an Iranian flag banner during a government-sponsored protest attended by medical workers against the U.S.-Israeli military campaign outside Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Medical workers attend a government-sponsored protest against the U.S.-Israeli military campaign outside Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Workers remove debris at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology complex that Iranian authorities say was hit early Monday by a U.S.-Israeli strike, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Israeli rescue teams search for missing people amid the rubble of a residential building a day after it was struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A truck loaded with logs and other vehicles drive along a road toward Tehran near the Turkish border on the outskirts of Razi, northwestern Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a crowded neighbourhood south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Yemeni soldiers patrol the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)
Israeli rescue teams search for missing people amid the rubble of a residential building a day after it was struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
