Rangers snap Yankees’ 220-game scoring streak

New York Yankees’ Luke Voit (45) reacts after striking out during the seventh inning of a baseball game in front of Texas Rangers catcher Jose Trevino, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Mike Minor rebounded from a pair of rocky outings to pitch 7 1/3 innings as the Texas Rangers posted a 7-0 win over the New York Yankees, who failed to score a run for the first time in 14 months.

The start of Monday’s game was delayed almost three hours because of rain as the Rangers won for the fourth time in six games and ended the Yankees’ modest two-game win streak.

New York, who trailed 4-0 after seven innings before rallying to beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 on Saturday, saw their 220-run scoring streak snapped.

The last time they were shut out was June 2018 against the Boston Red Sox. It was the second-longest streak of scoring a run since 1900, behind a 308-game streak by New York from August 1931 to August 1933.

Minor allowed five hits, striking out five and walking just one while throwing 111 pitches in front of a crowd of 40,000 at Yankee Stadium.

Minor struggled in his last two outings against the Los Angeles Angels.

But the Tennessee-born left hander has now completed at least seven innings for the 13th time and delivered his seventh scoreless performance this season.

He was lifted after allowing two singles in the eighth. Shawn Kelley came on and quickly ended the inning. Emmanuel Clase closed it out in the ninth.

Yankees’ starter Masahiro Tanaka gave up two runs in six innings and dropped to 10-8 on the season.

The Rangers tacked on five more runs in the eighth and ninth innings.

Tanaka, of Japan, finished with five strikeouts but walked two batters.