Ugly, five-error loss halts Yankees’ winning streak

With an injury-depleted lineup and rotation, the Yankees have little margin for error these days, let alone five.

The Yankees threw away a three-game winning streak with a 4-2 loss to the Rangers in The Bronx on Monday night.

Making matters even worse, the last-place Rangers entered the game having lost 24-of-28 games.

Instead, it was the Yankees who looked like cellar dwellers, with Shane Greene making three errors in his third career start and an offense stuck in neutral, as pinch-hitter Yangervis Solarte flied to left to end it after Kelly Johnson and Brian McCann reached in the bottom of the ninth.

The Yankees took a 2-1 lead into the sixth thanks to Jacoby Ellsbury's homer to lead off the fourth inning. And after Greene retired the first two batters, he seemed set to deliver another excellent outing.

Instead, he ended up facing one too many batters.

Greene gave up a two-out single to Jake Smolinski and then walked Jim Adduci, prompting a visit from pitching coach Larry Rothschild and not a hook from Joe Girardi. Geovany Soto followed with a run-scoring single to left, ending Greene's night.

Shane Greene reacts after his third errorPhoto: AP

Things only got worse when Matt Thornton came in and surrendered another single to Rougned Odor that gave the Rangers the lead. Shin-Soo Choo added another hit off Thornton to make it 4-2.

Adam Warren then came on to fan Elvis Andrus.

Greene could have had a larger cushion to work with, but the Yankees again squandered scoring chances, this time in the bottom of the fifth.

Francisco Cervelli and Zelous Wheeler each singled with one out and Brett Gardner walked to load the bases, but Derek Jeter grounded into an inning-ending double play to keep it a one-run game.

And while none of the errors ended up costing the Yankees runs, they did lead to Greene throwing 113 pitches in just 5 ²/₃ innings.

Greene made three ghastly errors of his own.

In the second, he dropped Johnson's throw at first base on Leonys Martin's grounder with one out. After striking out Smolinski, Greene then fielded Adduci's slow comebacker and nonchalantly lobbed the ball high over Johnson's head at first for a two-base error.

Following a visit from Rothschild, Greene came back to strike out Soto.

He threw another ball away on Soto's slow grounder in the fourth.

Despite those miscues, he only allowed one run until the sixth. Texas scored in the third, when a Brian Roberts error helped extend the inning following Choo's leadoff double.

Prior to the game, Girardi admitted he didn't anticipate relying on so many inexperienced pitchers this season.

"I don't think you ever expect that because when we started the season, we had veteran starters," Girardi said. "But it happens. It's an opportunity for them to shine and prove they do belong here."

The Yankees went ahead in the first when Jeter walked with one out, moved to second on a balk by Texas starter Miles Mikolas and then to third on Ellsbury's infield single to second and scored on Carlos Beltran's sacrifice fly to short center.

After that, the Yankees scored just one more time on Ellsbury's blast against Mikolas, who was making his fourth career start — none of them impressive.

In his previous two outings, Mikolas (1-2) had surrendered 13 earned runs in nine innings.

On Monday, he was good enough to limit the Yankees to four hits and two runs in 7 ¹/₃ innings.

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