Rangers snap four-game skid, pound Mariners 8-1

Corey Seager and Adolis Garcia both had two RBI singles in Texas’ third-inning offensive uprising and Jacob deGrom earned his second straight win as the Rangers waylaid the Seattle Mariners 8-1 on Sunday afternoon in the finale of a three-game American League West series in Arlington, Texas.The Rangers ended a four-game losing streak and salvaged one game in the series by finally bunching timely hits and scoring more than one run. Texas won just two of the seven games in the homestand that wrapped up Sunday.deGrom (2-1) went five innings, allowing one run on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks to garner his second victory since April 2023. He was followed to the mound by Jacob Webb, Hoby Milner and Luke Jackson.Seattle’s Logan Evans (1-1) struggled in his second major league start, surrendering six runs (all of them in the fourth inning) on 11 hits in five innings of work. Evans struck out five and walked two as the Mariners had a six-game winning streak snapped.Texas outhit the Mariners 12-4, with Josh Smith leading the way for the Rangers with four hits that included a triple, the game’s only extra-base hit.Casey Legumina relived in the sixth and Eduard Bazardo hurled the seventh and eighth for Seattle, who managed just four singles by four different players.