Rangers recap: Yankees hammer Texas with most lopsided loss of the season

The New York Yankees took the Texas Rangers to the woodshed Tuesday night and it was ugly. The Yankees scored 11 runs in the second en route to a 21-5 win at Globe Life Park. It’s the most runs scored by a major league team since the Seattle Mariners scored 23 against the Rangers in 2012.

Pitching: Martin Perez allowed eight runs on seven hits in a nightmare second inning for the Rangers. After Texas batted around to score five runs in the first, New York responded by doing the same and scoring 11 times. Perez was knocked out without recording an out in the inning. Wandy Rodriguez replaced him and allowed seven earned runs on six hits and three walks. Rodriguez struck out the side to end the top of the second, which lasted 29 minutes. Rodriguez was replaced by Phil Klein in the third after he failed to get the first four batters out, the fourth being Chris Young, who hit a grand slam to make it 15-5. Klein pitched three innings of relief, allowing an unearned run in the fourth thanks to an error by shortstop Elvis Andrus, his 18th of the season. The Yankees added three more runs in the sixth against Spencer Patton. Infielder Adam Rosales pitched the ninth (his second appearance this season) and surrendered a two-run homer to Brett Gardner.

Hitting: Texas batted around in the first with the help of five walks by Yankees starter Chris Capuano and three hits. Ryan Rua’s two-run bloop single to shallow left field made it 3-0. Shin-Soo Choo doubled in Mitch Moreland to make it 4-0 and Delino DeShields walked for the second time in the inning to drive in the fifth run. Rougned Odor made two of the outs in the inning. Texas had just one base runner after the first inning, a walk by Choo in the third.

Notable: The five-runs in the first is the most by the Rangers in the first inning of a game since scoring five on Sept. 27, 2012, against Oakland ... It’s the fifth time in Rangers’ history they’ve had two pitchers allow seven or more earned runs in the same game.

This story was originally published July 28, 2015 at 11:33 PM with the headline "Rangers recap: Yankees hammer Texas with most lopsided loss of the season."