Major League Baseball
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Texas 4, NY Yankees 2
When: 8:05 PM ET, Monday, July 28, 2014
Where: Globe Life Park in Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Temperature: 91°
Umpires: Home - Lance Barrett, 1B - Ron Kulpa, 2B - Ed Hickox, 3B - Pat Hoberg
Attendance: 44508

Rangers 4, Yankees 2: J.P. Arencibia drove in a pair of runs to back seven solid innings from Yu Darvish as host Texas won the opener of the three-game series.

Adrian Beltre and Elvis Andrus had RBI hits while Alex Rios singled twice to help the Rangers win for only the seventh time in 36 games. Darvish (10-6) struck out eight and allowed nine hits but minimized the damage to reach double digits in victories in each of his first three major-league seasons.

Brett Gardner belted a pair of solo homers - his first career game with two blasts - and Derek Jeter collected three hits to move into seventh place on the career list for New York, which suffered its third straight defeat. David Phelps (5-5) allowed four runs on eight hits over six innings to halt his eight-start unbeaten streak.

Gardner continued to torment Darvish with a two-out shot to right field in the third before lofting a breaking ball into the seats in center in the fifth to stake the Yankees to a 2-0 lead. Texas responded with four runs in the bottom of the frame, with all the scoring coming with two outs.

Andrus singled home a run and moved to third on a base hit by Rios before Beltre doubled in the tying run and, after Jim Adduci walked to load the bases, Arencibia lined a single up the middle on an 0-2 pitch to plate two more for a 4-2 advantage. Neal Cotts worked around two hits in the eighth before Neftali Feliz tossed a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Jeter's three hits gave him 3,420 for his career, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski for seventh on the all-time list. ... Arencibia, who was recalled from the minors after the All-Star break, has a team-high nine RBIs in the last 11 games. ... Gardner improved to 5-for-11 against Darvish and joined All-Stars Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels and Brandon Moss of the Oakland Athletics as the only players with four homers off the Japanese standout.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Yankees   Texas
David Phelps Player Yu Darvish
Loss W/L Win
6.0 IP 7.0
3 Strikeouts 8
8 Hits 9
6.00 ERA 2.57
Hitting
NY Yankees   Texas
Derek Jeter Player Alex Rios
3 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
4 TB 2
.750 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Yankees 11 2 18 .297 17 8 2 1 1 1
Texas 8 0 10 .242 14 6 4 2 0 0