HOUSTON (AP) — Logan Gilbert threw eight dominant innings, Luis Urías and Cal Raleigh homered and the Seattle Mariners beat the Houston Astros 5-0 on Saturday night.

Seattle Mariners 5, Houston Astros 0: Box Score

Gilbert (3-0) allowed two hits and four walks and struck out six. He has allowed two runs or fewer in six of his seven starts.

“It’s nice and helps me catch my breath,” Gilbert said about the run support. “It gives me a lot of confidence to fill it up. It gives me freedom to do what I want to do and trying to just keep the momentum that they already built.”

The right-hander retired 16 of 17 at one point. He was also aided by three double plays.

“He was super aggressive,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “He was in the strike zone. That’s a good fastball hitting team, and you know you’re going to have to mix in your secondary pitches, but you got to get them over the plate. You got to land them. I thought his slider, curveball, splitter at times tonight. Just outstanding command of those pitches in the zone when they need to be and out of the zone to get some chase.

Servais said it “was probably the most complete game we’ve played all year.”

“What Logan did was fantastic,” Servais said. “Logan is on a roll. It’s as good as we’ve seen him at any point. He continues to make adjustments throughout the course of the game. He and Cal did a great job against that lineup tonight.

Urías hit a solo home run to center to lead off the fifth, and Raleigh added a two-run shot to left center in the sixth. Mitch Garver had an RBI double in the fourth, and Ty France scored on Raleigh’s double-play groundout in the second.

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Astros starter Framber Valdez (1-1) allowed five runs on nine hits with three strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. He had allowed three runs or fewer in each of his previous three starts.

“I thought he threw the ball well,” Houston manager Joe Espada said. “He got some ground balls. His stuff looked really good. I think he made his pitches when he needed to. I think the story was we couldn’t get much going offensively.”

Yordan Alvarez had two infield singles, and Jeremy Peña singled for Houston’s only hits.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Astros: RHP Cristian Javier (neck discomfort) allowed three runs on three hits with three strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings Saturday, throwing 68 pitches in a rehabilitation start with Double-A Corpus Christi. … RHP Lance McCullers (right elbow surgery) threw off the top of the mound Saturday, manager Joe Espada said. … RHP José Urquidy (right forearm strain) is scheduled to throw a live batting practice session Sunday. … OF Chas McCormick (right hamstring) ran Saturday, Espada said, adding that hopefully he will run more Sunday before taking batting practice and heading out on a rehab assignment “soon.”

UP NEXT

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SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that has been hoofing through the foothills of western Washington for days was recaptured Friday evening, nearly a week after she escaped with three other zebras from a trailer near Seattle.

Local residents and animal control officers corralled the zebra named “Shug” in the community of Riverbend, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Seattle, the Regional Animal Services of King County wrote on its website.

“The zebra seemed to be in good condition despite her nearly week-long adventure in the woods,” the agency wrote.

Shug was one of four zebras that escaped as they were being transported from Washington to Montana last Sunday. The driver had taken the Interstate 90 exit for North Bend, in the Cascade mountain foothills about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Seattle, to secure the trailer, when the animals got loose — surprising residents and drivers as they galloped into a rural neighborhood.

Three were quickly captured after being corralled in a pasture. But the fourth — a mare who was initially dubbed “Z” — hopped a fence and disappeared. Shug’s adventure quickly captured public attention, spawning social media memes that placed the animal everywhere from riding a ferry across Puget Sound to rounding the bases at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners.

But there were more credible sightings elsewhere: Some area residents spotted Shug on their trail cameras, and that sparked some concerns since the cameras also recently captured cougars in the area.

Earlier Friday, King County officials closed off trail access points along the Snoqualmie Valley Trail in the Boxley Creek Natural Area, where the zebra seemed to be frequenting. People trying to see the zebra there may have been spooking it, making it harder to recapture, they said. Feeding zones were set up to help coax the animal out for a rescue.

Owner Kristine Keltgen previously told The Seattle Times she bought the zebras in Lewis County, Washington, and was bringing them to a petting zoo she runs near Anaconda, in southwestern Montana. She had been on the road for about two hours when she noticed one of the trailer’s floor mats was flapping and dragging behind her. When she opened the door to adjust the mat, the zebras ran out. Several people stopped to help corral the animals, including a rodeo clown and horse trainers, but Shug had managed to elude those attempts.

Shug will now be transported to Montana to join the rest of the dazzle, or group, of zebras, Regional Animal Services of King County said.

Seattle Reign FC need points. The journey to get out of the bottom of the standings began tonight at Lumen Field as Laura Harvey’s side started a grueling three-match week. Friday night they hosted San Diego Wave FC, and it was a signature NWSL After Dark affair.

Nine minutes into the match Reign forward Tziarra King was shown a straight red card after VAR summoned referee Danielle Cheskey to the monitor and it was determined that King committed a violent action, striking San Diego’s Hanna Lundkvist in the face. Kyra Carusa opened the scoring for the Wave two minutes after the reset. Seattle would get their equalizer in the 34th minute as Bethany Balcer capitalized on a blunder by San Diego goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan while trying to play the ball out of the back.

The second half saw no chaos, no controversy and despite Seattle playing basically the entire evening with 10 players, they were the more aggressive side, making runs into San Diego’s defensive third and threatening them. And for a team trying to snap a five-match losing streak, thinking it was going to be another hard evening with the early red card, luck finally came to Seattle as an 89th minute goal by Veronica Latsko gave Seattle a 2-1 victory over San Diego Wave FC.

WHAT WORKED: FORTUNE FAVORS BOATS

There’s an X/Twitter account called @wpiootbgw, which stands for When Playing It Out of the Back Goes Wrong, and this time Reign FC were the beneficiaries of it as Bethany Balcer claimed the equalizer for Seattle in the 34th minute when San Diego tried to play the ball out of the back.

WHAT WORKED: 89th MINUTE MAGIC

Despite playing nearly the entire match down a player after the red card, Seattle were the aggressors for most of the second half. Ji didn’t start the match, but came on in the 67th minute and set up the winning moment with a sublime free kick into the box that Veronica Latsko got her head onto, and with her entire body away from goal redirected it at the exact angle that San Diego’s Kailen Sheridan could do nothing with, encapsulating Seattle’s resilient, never-say-die energy to win the match.

WHAT WORKED: LAUREL IVORY

Ivory has been in goal for Seattle ever since Claudia Dickey had to leave the match at Bay FC on April 14 due to a knee injury. Over the course of the losing streak, teammates have been steadfast in praising Ivory for putting in the work at training. The circumstances may have been on the extreme end of the chaos scale even for the NWSL, but tonight Ivory claimed her first NWSL regular-season win, which coincidentally was captain Lauren Barnes’ 100th win, the first player in NWSL history to hit that achievement. Ivory earned her win tonight, especially with this save.

WHAT DIDN’T WORK: SO… THAT RED CARD…

NWSL After Dark kicked in nine minutes into the match when Tziarra King was shown a straight red after a referee Danielle Cheskey was summoned to the VAR monitor. While running alongside one another, King’s right hand struck Hanna Lundkvist in the face. The VAR check came during a stoppage so Lundkvist could be tended to due to a facial laceration, and Cheskey determined it was enough of a violent action to merit a straight red for King. This play and a similar red to Wave midfielder Kristen McNabb late in second-half stoppage time will definitely be discussed over the weekend around the league.

After the match, Seattle Reign FC head coach Laura Harvey was asked if the club was going to or had already initiated an appeal process for King’s red, but she didn’t tip her hand as to the club’s plan. The club can appeal it, but as to whether they choose to do so and if will be successful, we’ll just have to wait and see.

“I say 9.5”

Aficionados of NWSL After Dark got their money’s worth with tonight’s game. When asked to put the game they had just played on the NWSL After Dark scale of 1 to 10, Veronica Latsko said, “You always have to leave room for growth, I say 9.5.” Laurel Ivory added, “All I kept saying after the game was, ‘What just happened?!’”

Taking in the results around the league so far this week, Seattle are no longer at the bottom of the table and now in 10th place with the win. It’s a short turnaround for Seattle as they’re back at Lumen Field on Wednesday, May 8 for a weeknight meeting with Kansas City Current. Kansas City will be coming in on an even shorter turnaround as they have a match this Sunday at Houston Dash. Seattle Reign FC vs. Kansas City Current is scheduled for a 7 PM kickoff and will be broadcast on the NWSL+ streaming platform as well as locally on KONG TV.