{"id":714453,"date":"2026-04-08T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/714453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:45:20","slug":"mackenzie-gore-allows-1-hit-in-5-innings-to-help-rangers-blank-the-mariners-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/714453\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKenzie Gore allows 1 hit in 5 innings to help Rangers blank the Mariners 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacKenzie Gore allowed one hit in five innings, Brandon Nimmo and Josh Smith had two hits each and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Rangers <\/a>shut out the Seattle Mariners 3-0 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas scored all three runs in the fifth inning to complete a three-game series sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Gore (2-0) fanned nine and walked two. Bryan Woo (0-1) took the loss after allowing three runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 on five hits in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Nimmo then reached on a fielder&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Seager added a sacrifice fly later in the inning to score Duran and extend the advantage to 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle managed just two hits \u2014 singles by Mitch Garver and Cole Young \u2014 and struck out 13 times.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Martin and Luis Curvelo each worked scoreless relief innings before Cole Winn pitched the ninth to complete the two-hit shutout.<\/p>\n<p>The loss was the Mariners&#8217; fifth in a row.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacKenzie Gore allowed one hit in five innings, Brandon Nimmo and Josh Smith had two hits each and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":714454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[3379,1884,1266,1288,62,1278,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-714453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-josh-smith","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116371752813335156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}