Beltran Injured, Yankees Fall to Rangers

Carlos Beltran was forced to leave the game early Tuesday, while Cole Hamels tossed seven shutout innings in a 7-1 victory for the Texas Rangers (51-27) over the New York Yankees (37-39) at Yankee Stadium.  

Beltran exited the game in the bottom of the first inning with a tight right hamstring, according to Jack Curry of the YES Network.

Joe Girardi said Beltran’s MRI was “clean” and he is day-to-day.

Hamels gave up six hits and struck out seven on the way to his ninth victory of the year. His record now stands at 9-1.

Texas scored five runs in the top of the eighth inning to break the game open.

Five different Rangers each had an RBI in the frame, including Adrian Beltre, Prince Fielder, Nomar Mazara, Rougned Odor and Jurickson Profar.

CC Sabathia had only surrendered a two-run home run to Beltre in the top of the first inning before running into trouble in the top of the eighth inning.

The southpaw gave up six runs on eight hits over seven-plus innings and was tagged with the loss.

Sabathia is now 5-5 this season.

Alex Rodriguez had the lone RBI for the Bronx Bombers with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning.

The Yankees have now lost three games in a row and are 8.5 games behind the division-leading Baltimore Orioles.

Wednesday, Masahiro Tanaka (5-2, 3.01 ERA) will be on the hill for the Yankees against Nick Martinez (1-1, 5.54 ERA) for the Rangers.