MacKenzie Gore allows 1 hit in 5 innings to help Rangers blank the Mariners 3-0

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MacKenzie Gore allows 1 hit in 5 innings to help Rangers blank the Mariners 3-0

2026-04-09 05:16 Last Updated At：05:31

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — MacKenzie Gore allowed one hit in five innings, Brandon Nimmo and Josh Smith had two hits each and the Texas Rangers shut out the Seattle Mariners 3-0 on Wednesday.

Texas scored all three runs in the fifth inning to complete a three-game series sweep.

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Seattle Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo throws to the Texas Rangers in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh walks to the dugout after striking out in the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Texas Rangers' Brandon Nimmo reaches the bag after hitting a double in the third inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Texas Rangers pitcher MacKenzie Gore throws to the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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Seattle Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo throws to the Texas Rangers in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh walks to the dugout after striking out in the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Texas Rangers' Brandon Nimmo reaches the bag after hitting a double in the third inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Texas Rangers pitcher MacKenzie Gore throws to the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Gore (2-0) fanned nine and walked two. Bryan Woo (0-1) took the loss after allowing three runs — one earned — on five hits in five innings.

Danny Jansen and Smith opened the fifth inning with consecutive singles for the Rangers before Ezequiel Duran followed with another single to load the bases.

Nimmo then reached on a fielder’s choice that scored Jansen and Smith as Seattle committed a throwing error trying to turn a double play. Duran advanced to third, and Nimmo moved to second on the misplay to give Texas a 2-0 lead.

Corey Seager added a sacrifice fly later in the inning to score Duran and extend the advantage to 3-0.

Seattle managed just two hits — singles by Mitch Garver and Cole Young — and struck out 13 times.

Chris Martin and Luis Curvelo each worked scoreless relief innings before Cole Winn pitched the ninth to complete the two-hit shutout.

The loss was the Mariners fifth in a row.

Both teams have an off day before resuming play on Friday. RHP Emerson Hancock (1-1, 0.71 ERA) gets the start for the Mariners in a series opener against the Houston Astros, while RHP Kumar Rocker (0-1, 3.60 ERA) takes the mound for the Rangers against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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5 people are shot in DC, including 1 killed at a gym, and then suspect kills himself

WASHINGTON (AP) — A gunman killed a man inside a busy gym during morning workouts on Thursday before fleeing and shooting four more people, shocking a popular capital neighborhood and attracting a swarm of police officers who ascended to the roof of a building during the search and chaos.

He fatally shot himself while holed up in his penthouse apartment, where he had been speaking by phone with police negotiators, said Jeffery Carroll, interim chief with the Metropolitan Police Department.

The gunman was identified as a doctor locked in a dispute with building management over mold and moisture problems in his seventh-floor unit, court records show.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said she was “devastated” at the loss of life in a “senseless act of gun violence.”

The shootings occurred around 8 a.m. in Logan Circle, about a mile (1.6 kilometers) north of the White House. Much of the block on 15th Street Northwest was cordoned off as police urged people to avoid the area, which includes the VIDA Fitness center, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, residences and a Whole Foods store. Schools were locked down.

Law enforcement SWAT teams and other officers had their guns drawn on the roof of an apartment building and on the ground below.

Carroll said one man died at VIDA and another victim was in critical condition.

James Spellman, who was at the gym, said there were about 50 people there when the shooting began.

“Within seconds there was a man who fell to the ground, and a pool of blood came out,” he said. “One gym member rushed to help him. He was instantly dead. He had been shot in the neck.”

Anthony Mirones was in the gym’s cardio area when he heard a loud bang and thought something fell off the wall. He said someone was trying to help the wounded man but then a fire alarm went off and many people ran.

“The people in cardio had to step over the body,” Mirones said.

Another witness, Ryan Dubicki, said he was in his nearby apartment around the same time when he “heard about five bangs.”

“They were really spread out so I thought it was construction,” said Dubicki, an AP employee on the elections team. A short time later “there were cops everywhere.”

Authorities have preliminarily identified the shooter as Matt Lambert, according to two law enforcement officials and another person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren't allowed to publicly discuss the investigation.

Lambert was deeply upset with his condo building's management. He filed a lawsuit last year, alleging that he hadn't been able to use his penthouse since 2024 because of mold, moisture and water problems. He claimed the problems began after a contractor had worked on the building's exterior.

The litigation was ongoing, with mediation scheduled for next March, according to court filings. Lambert appeared to share his condo woes, including photos and an engineering report, on an X site titled OfMiceandMold.

The Logan Circle neighborhood has seen violence before. In early August 2025, a onetime member of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted early on a Sunday morning in the neighborhood by a group of teenagers attempting to carjack him and a woman, authorities said.

Days later, Trump fulfilled his threat to bypass local authority and imposed direct federal control over the city, sending in hundreds of National Guard members to reduce crime. That deployment continues today.

This story has been corrected to show the interim police chief’s name is Jeffery, not Jeffrey.

Associated Press writers Rebecca Santana and Gary Fields in Washington and Dave Collins in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

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