Eovaldi pitches majors' 1st complete game this season as the Rangers beat the Reds 1-0

CINCINNATI (AP) — Nathan Eovaldi pitched a four-hitter for the majors' first complete game of the season, and the Texas Rangers beat the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 on Tuesday night.

Eovaldi struck out eight and walked none in his fifth career complete game. The right-hander threw 99 pitches, 70 for strikes.

It was Eovaldi's first shutout since April 29, 2023, against the Yankees and No. 3 for his career.

Wyatt Langford homered for Texas in the first against Carson Spiers (0-1).

Cincinnati collected 14 hits in a 14-3 victory in the series opener, but Eovaldi (1-0) was dominant.

The Reds put the tying run on second with two out in the ninth, but Eovaldi retired Elly De La Cruz on a grounder to first.

Eovaldi retired his first 12 batters, including five straight strikeouts during one stretch. Gavin Lux hit a leadoff single in the fifth for Cincinnati's first baserunner.

Spiers allowed three hits in six innings in his season debut. He struck out five and walked two.

The Reds had the tying run at second base with one out in the seventh, but Eovaldi retired the next two batters.

Langford has two home runs in six games to begin the season. In 2024, it took him until the 29th game of the season to homer for the first time. Langford hit 16 homers in 134 games last season during his rookie year.

Reds right-hander Hunter Greene (0-0, 3.60 ERA) will face Rangers righty Jack Leiter (1-0, 1.80 ERA) in Wednesday's series finale. Leiter earned his first major league victory in his last start.

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Texas Rangers' Wyatt Langford, left, is congratulated by Adolis García, right, after hitting a solo home run in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Cincinnati Reds' Carson Spiers (68) delivers a pitch in the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Texas Rangers' Wyatt Langford, right, rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Texas Rangers' Jake Burger reacts after striking out in the second inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Cincinnati Reds' Carson Spiers delivers a pitch in the second inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Texas Rangers' Joc Pederson slides into second base after hitting a double in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Texas Rangers' Jake Burger, left, tosses the ball to Nathan Eovaldi, center, for an out of Cincinnati Reds' Gavin Lux (not pictured) in the second inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Texas Rangers' Nathan Eovaldi (17) delivers a pitch in the second inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three alleged MS-13 gang members have been federally charged in connection with a killing a decade ago in Florida, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday, seeking to highlight the Trump administration's push to prosecute violent gangs.

Bondi joined law enforcement officials in Fort Lauderdale to promote the Justice Department's efforts to go after the gang, which the Republican administration has designated a “foreign terrorist organization" and has seized on as the threat posed by illegal immigration.

“More arrests are coming,” Bondi said. “If you are a gang member living in this country, I’d self-deport right now because we’re coming after you.”

The three alleged gang members are among nine who have been arrested in four killings in South Florida in 2014 and 2015. The three men federally charged last month are accused of participating in the killing of someone who was stabbed about 100 times and then shot, the attorney general said.

Jose Ezequiel Gamez-Maravilla and Wilber Rosendo Navarro-Escobar were arrested in Florida. Hugo Adiel Bermudez-Martinez was arrested in Minnesota. Emails seeking comment were sent to attorneys for the men.

The violent killings in South Florida were carried out using knives or machetes, authorities say. The cases were reopened in 2020 after going cold, and one of the investigations led to a multi-day excavation to recover the body of Joel Canizales-Lara in 2021, after he was reported missing in 2014.

The announcement comes a week after Bondi lauded the arrest of the alleged East Coast leader of the MS-13 gang.

In the past decade, the Justice Department has intensified its focus on MS-13, which originated as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles but grew into a transnational gang based in El Salvador. The gang has members in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico and thousands of members across the U.S. with numerous branches or cliques.

Associated Press reporter Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington contributed.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announces the arrest of gang members involved in four homicides, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Family members of a homicide victim listen to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announce the arrest of gang members involved in four homicides, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announces the arrest of gang members involved in four homicides, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)