Tanner Bibee gets first win of season in 14th start, Guardians beat Rangers 6-0

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tanner Bibee got his first win of the season in his 14th start, allowing three hits over eight innings to lead the Cleveland Guardians over the Texas Rangers 6-0 on Saturday.

A 27-year-old right-hander, Bibee (1-7) had been winless in a franchise-record 13 regular-season starts since beating Detroit last Sept. 24.

He needed 87 pitches to get through eight innings, striking out three and walking two. Bibee has receive one or zero runs of support in 10 previous starts this year.

Tim Herrin pitched a hitless ninth to finish Cleveland's third shutout, all on the road. Texas was blanked for the fifth time — and fourth in the Rangers' last 24 games.

José Ramírez and Brayan Rocchio homered for the Guardians.

Jack Leiter (3-5) allowed five runs, matching his season high, and six hits in 4 2/3 innings with a season-low two strikeouts. Texas (31-33) has not been at .500 it was 16-16 after play on May 1.

Ramírez led off the second with a drive into the home bullpen beyond right field and Rocchio, Cleveland’s No. 9 hitter, homered off the right-field foul pole in a four-run fifth. He matched a career high with five home runs this year.

Chase DeLauter, Kyle Manzardo and Daniel Schneemann added two-out RBI hits in the fifth.

Rangers reliever Luis Curvelo left the eighth after his second batter, Patrick Bailey, hit a 107.7 mph liner off the pitcher's right thigh.

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Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (4-4, 3.48 ERA) is scheduled to start Sunday in his first career appearance start against Cleveland, the only team he’s never faced. LHP Joey Cantillo (4-2, 3.92) starts for the Guardians.

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Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jack Leiter fields in groundout hit by Cleveland Guardians' Daniel Schneemann during the third inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, right, congratulates Brayan Rocchio (4) after Rocchio hit a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Cleveland Guardians' José Ramírez watches his home run sail into center field during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Cleveland Guardians' Brayan Rocchio celebrates after his home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Tanner Bibee throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

CAIRO (AP) — Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait that were intercepted early Saturday, Bahrain’s government said, and called on Tehran to halt attacks on Gulf neighbors that test a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East conflict.

Iran said that it targeted American military assets in both countries, after the U.S. attacked surveillance facilities on Qeshm Island and near Sirik that Iran said were used to protect borders and “ensure the security of navigation in international waters." Tehran called the attack a ceasefire violation.

Later Saturday, U.S. Central Command said U.S. forces had shot down two Iranian attack drones over the Strait of Hormuz.

The latest exchanges came as the Trump administration presses Iran to make a deal to end the war, which has strained the global economy and threatened a hunger crisis in some of the world's most vulnerable countries.

Pakistan’s interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, arrived in Iran on Saturday as part of mediation efforts.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is seeking to ratchet up economic pressure on Iran. The U.S. Treasury Department is considering allowing Gulf allies to tap into frozen Iranian assets to pay for damages they sustained in the war, according to a person familiar with Secretary Scott Bessent's thinking who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations.

The U.S. military said earlier that it had shot down several Iranian missiles and drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf Arab allies, and struck some of the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response.

“The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had targeted the Ali Al Salem air base, which hosts U.S. forces in Kuwait, and the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet in Bahrain, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

The U.S. military said there were no reports of harm to U.S. personnel.

Earlier in the week, Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal at Kuwait’s main airport, killing one person and wounding dozens.

The U.S. military kept up its blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s grip on the strait, a crucial corridor for global oil and natural gas shipments. Energy prices have spiked, posing political problems for U.S. President Donald Trump's Republican Party before the midterm congressional election.

Trump increasingly appears to be boxed in. U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement a week ago to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program. Trump, however, has called for unspecified changes, and Iranian officials have shown no public sign of agreeing to the deal.

The fighting in Lebanon, where Israeli forces have seized large swaths of the south while saying it targets the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, also challenges efforts to end the Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has demanded that any lasting truce extends to Lebanon.

The Trump administration has touted the latest ceasefire agreed to earlier in the week by the Lebanese government and Israel after U.S.-brokered talks in Washington. However, Hezbollah has rejected the agreement.

Miad Maleki, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former Iranian sanctions expert at the Treasury Department, said it's significant that the U.S. is signaling it could allow Gulf countries to access some of the $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets stored abroad.

Iran had been seeking some of the funds as part of a deal, and rather than offering Tehran that concession, the U.S. is pressuring them to move quickly.

“So the U.S. government is saying: ’Hey, not just that we’re not going to give you these funds. As a matter of fact, we’re going to take these funds from you, and we’re going to help Gulf states to take it,” Maleki said.

Allowing Gulf states to use the frozen assets would also bolster U.S. ties there, he said. It would send a clear signal that America is sticking with its partners as they've sustained attacks and repercussions from the war.

However, Maleki said some Gulf states may be reluctant to use the funds out of concern that they could face retaliation from Iran for doing so.

Michelle L. Price reported from Bridgewater, New Jersey. Munir Ahmed contributed to this report from Islamabad.

A woman reacts to the camera as she walks past an anti-U.S. graffiti painted on the wall of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from Joint Base Andrews, Md., to Eau Claire, Wis., Friday, June 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

People gather on paddleboards in shallow water as cargo and service vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, June 1, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)