After falling behind five runs, the Texas Rangers offense came alive late and had the go-ahead run on base in the ninth before losing 8-7.
scored a run in the sixth. two in the seventh, three more in the eighth and had the tying run at third base when Leody Taveras grounded out to end the game.
Andrew Heaney allowed four runs on five hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings. With two outs and two on in the fifth, Jose Leclerc relieved Heaney and surrendered a three-run homer to Giancarlo Stanton to give the Yankees a 5-0 lead.The Rangers have lost five consecutive series and fell to 7.5 games back of the first-place Houston Astros in the American League West. The Astros swept the Red Sox in Boston ahead of the Rangers' series at Fenway Park.
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