WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Wyatt Langford hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning and the Texas Rangers beat the Athletics 5-3 on Saturday night to end a four-game losing streak.
Corey Seager, Nicky Lopez, and Jarred Kelenic each drove in a run in the Rangers' 22nd comeback victory of the season.
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Athletics' trainer checks on pitcher J.T. Ginn, left, after catching a line drive hit by Texas Rangers' Brandon Nimmo during the 2-3 inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn throws to the Texas Rangers during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Texas Rangers pitcher MacKenzie Gore throws to the Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Texas Rangers' Brandon Nimmo, center, celebrates a double during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Texas Rangers' Wyatt Langford, right, high-fives Corey Seager after hitting a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Mackenzie Gore (7-9) threw 5 2/3 innings. He allowed three runs on eight hits.
Henry Bolte hit a three-run homer for the Athletics in the second inning. Initially called a foul ball, replay review showed that the ball scraped the outside of the foul pole.
Lopez singled to center for the Rangers' first run of the game in the fifth, and Seager added another RBI single in the sixth. Langford then launched a 421-footer to left-center on the next pitch to give the Rangers a one-run lead. Kelenic drove in one more in the ninth as a pinch-hitter.
Three relievers combined for 3 1/3 hitless innings and Jacob Latz worked two frames for his 24th save.
For the A's, Bolte was 3-for-5 with his homer and a double, the sixth three-hit game for the 23-year-old rookie. J.T. Ginn (8-7) gave up four runs on eight hits and struck out seven in six innings of work.
Rangers LHP Cody Bradford (0-1, 2.38 ERA) was set to start against A's LHP Jacob Lopez (5-4, 5.38) on Sunday in the final game of the series.
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Athletics' trainer checks on pitcher J.T. Ginn, left, after catching a line drive hit by Texas Rangers' Brandon Nimmo during the 2-3 inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn throws to the Texas Rangers during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Texas Rangers pitcher MacKenzie Gore throws to the Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Texas Rangers' Brandon Nimmo, center, celebrates a double during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
Texas Rangers' Wyatt Langford, right, high-fives Corey Seager after hitting a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chided the international community Wednesday for not taking a tougher stance against Russia over its escalating bombardment of civilian areas of Ukraine.
At the end of August, Russia launched a week of nighttime and daylight attacks on Kyiv in its heaviest sustained bombardment of the Ukrainian capital since its full-scale invasion began more than four years ago. The relentless missile and drone strikes have continued this month and aim to sap civilian morale, Ukrainian officials say.
International economic sanctions on Russia and efforts to isolate Moscow diplomatically haven’t stopped the invasion. Zelenskyy urged countries to step up the pressure.
“Unfortunately, there has been too little response from the international community to these strikes, which are taking people’s lives practically every day,” he said on social media.
“But a response is needed — Moscow must not go into the winter believing that it can get away with missile and drone terror without consequences,” he said.
The United Nations said last month that increasing Russian aerial attacks killed or wounded more Ukrainian civilians in July than in any month since March 2022, with 437 killed and more than 2,600 wounded.
In all, more than 16,800 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and more than 51,000 wounded since the Russian invasion, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
The U.S. has renewed its push to end the fighting, sending special envoys over the weekend to Kyiv and Moscow, although Washington’s efforts haven’t yet delivered any substantial progress. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Tuesday that the Ukraine-Russia talks were “substantive” but much remains to be done.
Russia's aerial attacks overnight into Wednesday killed at least two people and wounded seven, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow fired ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones at six regions.
Four of the wounded were in a 22-story residential building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, where a drone damaged the 11th floor and started a fire on the 12th floor, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.
Olha Smal, 62, who lives on the 12th floor, said the blast wave flung her across her kitchen. One of her bedrooms caught fire, and smoke quickly filled the apartment, she said. Her pregnant neighbor was wounded.
“You live one day at a time. You don’t know what will happen to you tomorrow, or even what will happen today,” she told The Associated Press. “It’s very, very hard.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its forces hit a drone factory warehouse in Kyiv.
It also claimed strikes on fuel reservoirs and an electric substation in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.
The Russian military also struck a ship heading to Odesa with military cargo and logistical facilities at Ukraine’s Starokozache border crossing with Moldova, the ministry said. The border strike killed two people, Ukrainian authorities said.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine is responding to Moscow’s strikes with daily long-range attacks on infrastructure deep inside Russia.
He said the latest Ukrainian strikes targeted Novorossiysk, a Black Sea port in Russia’s Krasnodar region. The attack hit a naval base, including a terminal used to load oil, military port facilities, and warships carrying cruise missiles, according to Zelenskyy.
The Novorossiysk naval base is a key hub for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, providing maintenance and logistical support for its ships, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.
Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said that four people, including a child, were killed and 29 others were wounded in the drone attack on Novorossiysk.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 596 Ukrainian drones from late Tuesday until early Wednesday.
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Firefighters work on a partially damaged residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Firefighters work on a partially damaged residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Locals watch as firefighters work on a partially damaged residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A woman peers from a window of a partially damaged residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
