Yankees use 11-run inning in 21-5 comeback win at Texas

New York’s 15-5 record in July is the best in the majors.

UPDATE (6:46 p.m.) The Rangers have decided not to insert Wandy Rodriguez back into the starting rotation this week.

New York had already plated 11 runs after the top of the second inning.

Chris Young led the season-high 19-hit attack with a third-inning grand slam and an RBI double in the sixth.

“It was fun tonight, not just for me but for everybody with that comeback in the second inning”, Young said. “It was fantastic”.

And the Yankees just kept the carousel of baserunners going as they romped to a 21-5 win, burying with it the memory of Chris Capuano’s ugly first inning. “Five walks – not a good effort”.

“The fans were always incredible to me”, Rodriguez said.

New York Yankees’ Brett Gardner is congratulated on scoring on a Chase Headley single in the second inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. Not how you want to play the game.

“More than anything else, the extended part of the inning came after we don’t make a play”, Rangers manager Jeff Banister said.

The Yankees sent 15 batters to the plate in the inning, which featured 10 hits, a hit batter and a walk. Instead of getting an out, the ball went behind him and into the right-center field gap for a two-run double. Texas 2B Rougned Odor is 0-for-9 in two games since being named AL Player of the Week on Monday.3. New York is 9-2 since the All-Star break and pulling away in the American League East thanks to an offense that has piled up 42 runs in its last four games.

It was the most runs given up by the Rangers since their 21-8 loss to Seattle on May 30, 2012.

Fielder is batting. 412 with five homers and 18 RBIs in a 12-game hitting streak against New York. The homerun was fifth of the season, and the beginning of a good night for Gregorius. So, the question entering next season will be how home runs Rodriguez can hit in his (expected) final two seasons.

Alex Rodriguez hit a home run on his 40th birthday, and Didi Gregorius set a career high with four RBIs as the New York Yankees pounded the Texas Rangers 6-2 Monday night.

Things got off to a rocky start for Ivan Nova and the Yankees, as he ran into trouble early in the game. The latest came two days after he went deep three times against Minnesota, in his previous game. But Bryant drove the second pitch he saw from John Axford (3-4) over the wall in left-centre to snap a three-game skid for Chicago.

“I’ve seen a snowman (8) but I’ve never seen 11 (runs)”. New York is 2-4 in their last six meetings with Texas. Nova finished pitching five innings, allowing two runs, five hits, and two walks.

Prior to Tuesday’s game, the Rangers had not allowed more than 13 runs in a game this year, which they did twice including this past Sunday against the Angels.

Moreno is the first Yankees reliever to put up those numbers and get the win since 1956. He plans to make his next scheduled start, adding, “I’m not hurt”.

Since the Yankees do not have an off day on this 10-game trip and wanted to give extra rest to starters Masahiro Tanaka and Michael Pineda, they needed a starter for this contest.