Through the first 70 games of the 2025 season, the Texas Rangers had not played a single extra-innings contest.

In the last two weeks, the Rangers have played three, entering play 2-0 when going past nine innings this season, with their most recent, a 6-5 10-inning comeback win over the Orioles on Tuesday.

Friday night’s series and homestand opener against the Seattle Mariners at Globe Life Field followed a similar path but, unfortunately for the Rangers, had a different result.

After erasing a four-run deficit, the Rangers went hitless in three extra frames, falling to Seattle by a score of 7-6.

“I thought they played hard,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said after the game. “Like in Baltimore, they came back and fought back hard. We had to come back from that four-run deficit there, and we had some chances but just couldn’t get that one more hit. It was a great game and unfortunately, we came out on the wrong end of it, but a lot of good things happened, we just couldn’t quite finish it”.

With Seattle leading 5-1 in the 6th, Marcus Semien got the comeback started as he slammed an RBI double off the left field wall to make it 5-2.

Adolis Garcia would score a pair, including Semien, as he knocked a two-RBI single up the middle as part of his season-high three RBI night.

In the very next inning, Sam Haggerty came up huge against his former team, lacing a two-out RBI single to tie the game at five.

The Rangers comeback was aided by their bullpen, which allowed just two earned runs in what ended up being nine full innings of work.

Seven of the Rangers eight relievers were forced into action after Nathan Eovaldi made his first start in a month, going three innings, allowing three runs while striking out two and walking two.

“It felt good to be back out there,” Eovaldi said. “I felt like I was a little off mechanically, I maybe rotated a little too much, and never really made those adjustments. I felt like my splitter was kinda up in the zone and my curveball was popping out of my hand, and I wasn’t able to execute very well, but I was trying to go out there and get early contact and try to go as deep as I could. I don’t really know what my pitch count was or anything, so just trying to get as quick outs as possible.