SEATTLE (AP) — Luke Raley drove in three runs and the Seattle Mariners scored four times in the third and seventh innings to down the Texas Rangers 9-2 on Saturday night.
Bryan Woo (2-0) allowed one run and six hits with seven strikeouts in seven innings for Seattle. Cal Raleigh hit a home run for the second consecutive game.
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Seattle Mariners' J.P. Crawford runs home to score against the Texas Rangers on an RBI triple hit by Julio Rodriguez during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez reacts after hitting an RBI triple against the Texas Rangers to score J.P. Crawford during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Bryan Woo walks off the field after the second inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Texas Rangers' Jake Burger breaks his bat on a groundout against the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Texas Rangers center fielder Leody Taveras can't grab the RBI triple from Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Rowdy Tellez follows through on a two-run double to score Luke Raley and Cal Raleigh against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez reacts after hitting an RBI triple against the Texas Rangers to score J.P. Crawford during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Luke Raley follows through on a two-run single to score J.P. Crawford and Julio Rodriguez during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Woo got off to a rough start, allowing the first four batters to reach base. The Rangers went up 1-0 on Josh Smith's single to center that scored Marcus Semien, who walked to lead off the game.
The Mariners went ahead in the third. Julio Rodriguez hit an RBI triple to left center off Rangers starter Kumar Rocker (0-2) before scoring on Jorge Polanco's sacrifice fly to put the Mariners up 2-1.
Raleigh doubled and Randy Arozarena walked. Raleigh scored on a wild pitch and Raley's double brought in Arozarena to give the Mariners a 4-1 lead.
Raleigh added a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth. A day earlier he hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in a 5-3 victory over the Rangers in the series opener.
Raley hit a two-run single and Rowdy Tellez drove in two more runs with a double to extend the Mariners' lead in the seventh inning.
Jake Berger drove in a run for the Rangers in the ninth.
Using his new torpedo bat, Raleigh's home run in the fifth had an exit velocity of 108.7 mph and sailed 420 feet to straightaway center. He has two homers and a double with the bat.
After allowing a single in the fourth, Woo shut down the Rangers by retiring the next 12 batters.
The Mariners have a chance to sweep the series Sunday when they send RHP Logan Gilbert (0-1, 2.55 ERA) to face Rangers RHP Nathan Eovaldi (1-1, 2.29 ERA).
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Seattle Mariners' J.P. Crawford runs home to score against the Texas Rangers on an RBI triple hit by Julio Rodriguez during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez reacts after hitting an RBI triple against the Texas Rangers to score J.P. Crawford during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Bryan Woo walks off the field after the second inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Texas Rangers' Jake Burger breaks his bat on a groundout against the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Texas Rangers center fielder Leody Taveras can't grab the RBI triple from Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Rowdy Tellez follows through on a two-run double to score Luke Raley and Cal Raleigh against the Texas Rangers during the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez reacts after hitting an RBI triple against the Texas Rangers to score J.P. Crawford during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mariners' Luke Raley follows through on a two-run single to score J.P. Crawford and Julio Rodriguez during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came to a town hall in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday night to deliver a full-throated support of President Donald Trump, and she wasn't letting the protesters faze her — not even the one who was wrestled to the ground by police and subdued with a Taser.
Three people were arrested at the event, and others were escorted out because Greene and police said they were being disruptive. But a majority of the crowd of more than 150 were supportive of the Republican, who represents a heavily GOP district stretching from Atlanta's northwest suburbs to the Tennessee border.
“What am I going to do? I am going to stand by my president,” Greene said in response to a critical question as many audience members whooped in approval. She added that she would “fight for his agenda with everything I have in Congress.”
While Republican congressional leaders have advised their members not to hold town hall meetings, Greene has always courted the spotlight. After giving a speech and playing video clips of her supporting Trump, she answered questions that had been submitted in advance and printed on slides.
Most were supportive, like one asking when officials could begin arresting politicians accused of treason. Greene was dismissive of most of the hostile questions, twice suggesting that those behind them were Democrats “brainwashed” by their news consumption.
Answering multiple questions on tariffs, Greene argued that the “real economy” is thriving under Trump and that people shouldn't worry about turmoil in the stock and bond markets. In doing so Greene flatly denied the economic consensus that tariffs will lead to higher prices.
“The reality is tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people,” Greene said. “The tax on the American people that you’ve been suffering with is the inflation that Biden and the Democrats put on the American people and their absolute reckless spending for the past four years.”
Greene also said she believes her supporters have the patience to wait out negative effects of Trump's tariff policy and moves to slash federal spending, saying it could take a long time to show results.
“Don’t be a ‘panican.’ That’s a new word President Trump came up with,” Greene said, using an insult he coined online. “You see, look, it took us decades to get here — decades to get the $36 trillion in debt. It took decades for our factories to get shut down and our jobs sent overseas. It took decades for us to all fall into this terrible — it’s basically a grave that America has been put in and dug by our federal government.”
Greene, long one of Trump’s most loyal allies, has said she’s considering running for U.S. Senate or Georgia governor in 2026 but has yet to take any apparent moves toward what would likely be a bruising race in the politically competitive state.
She repeatedly said “Bye” to people being escorted from the room and praised officers' response, saying the appropriate place for those ejected was with more than 100 protesters lining a street outside the community center.
“This is a town hall, this is not a political rally, this is not a protest,” Greene said.
One protester held up a sign alluding to claims that Greene improperly profited from buying stocks when Trump partially paused tariffs against many countries last week. In questions from reporters afterward, Greene did not specifically deny having advance knowledge of the pause but repeated that a financial adviser manages her stock holdings without input from her.
“He did a great job. He bought the dip,” Greene said. “And that's what anybody with any financial sense does when they know the market is going to be going down.”
Acworth Police Sgt. Eric Mistretta said he did not yet have the names of the people arrested or the charges filed against them after the meeting. He said he believed officers responded with appropriate force to people who yelled at Greene and then resisted removal, although none approached her.
About 30 officers provided security including Cobb County police and sheriff's deputies, Mistretta said.
A protester is removed as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks after a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Demonstrators protest outside the venue where Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protester is removed as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protester is removed as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protester is removed as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protester speaks as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks after a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks after a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protester is removed before a electronic non-leathal device was used as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protester is removed before a electronic non-leathal device was used as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
