ARLINGTON, Texas — Adolis Garcia and Willie Calhoun homered as the Texas Rangers ended a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over the Yankees on Monday night, denying Gerrit Cole’s bid to become the American League’s first six-game winner.
Cole (5-2) allowed season highs of five runs and seven hits, getting pulled after Garcia led off the sixth with a sharp single on the right-hander’s 89th pitch. Cole struck out seven, but also issued two free passes after walking none over his previous five starts.
Garcia’s 11th homer was an opposite-field shot leading off the second, and was the first of three consecutive extra-base hits.