ARLINGTON, Texas — With two months remaining in Derek Jeter's baseball life the Yankees' hopes of getting the Captain an October nightcap to a Hall of Fame career are melting in the exposed ice sink.
After losing two of three to the morbid Rangers there is no other way to put it. Wednesday night's 3-2 defeat in front of 46,599 at Globe Life Park coupled with the AL East-leading Orioles beating the Angels dropped the Yankees 5 ½ lengths back of the Birds.
That's the biggest deficit since the Yankees were 6 ½ games out on June 9.
Hiroki Kuroda, the last standing member of the Opening Day rotation, gave up three runs in the first and appeared headed for a spanking. Instead, the veteran right-hander provided the Yankees a chance to win by going seven innings in which he allowed just those three runs, nine hits and threw a season-high 115 pitches.
Yet, Colby Lewis, who lost to the Yankees in The Bronx a week ago, gave up solo homers to Brett Gardner and Jacoby Ellsbury and nothing else in seven innings. He allowed two runs and four hits and improved his record to 7-8.
While Lewis was in the game the Yankees had a first-inning at-bat with a runner in scoring position and not another. Lewis entered the game 0-3 with a 6.14 ERA in four career starts against the Yankees.
Gardner's leadoff homer in the first was his 14th of the year and fourth in the three games.
It was the sixth straight game the Yankees hit two homers, but the recent muscle flexing wasn't enough to avoid losing two of three to what is easily the worst team in the American League.
With the non-waiver trade deadline Thursday at 4 p.m., the Yankees will continue to hunt for a starting pitcher and a right-handed hitting outfielder. The consensus inside and outside of the organization is the Yankees need at least one of each in order to serious contend across the final two months of the season.
Even when Kuroda's quality start is added to the equation the Yankees starters haven't pitched well in the last six outings — 2-2 with a 5.00 ERA.
After winning seven of eight following the All-Star break the Yankees have dropped four of five.
With a spent bullpen manager Joe Girardi was hoping Kuroda could work deep into the game. So when Kuroda required 33 pitches to get three outs in the first inning Girardi had to be wondering where the relief was going to come from.
Staked to a 1-0 lead by Gardner's leadoff homer Kuroda gave up a single to Shin-Soo Choo and an RBI double to Elvis Andrus to start the home first. Adrian Beltre scored Andrus with a single to center that was followed by Jim Adduci's single to left. Leonys Martin scored Beltre for a 3-1 lead.
Kuroda kept the Rangers away from home plate in the second and third and pitched out of a serious problem in the fourth when J.P. Arencibia singled and Martin walked to open the frame.
Robert Chirinos' sacrifice-bunt attempt was turned into a force out at third by Chase Headley, Rougned Odor popped up and Choo grounded out.
A pair of two-out singles in the fifth put Kuroda in danger of giving up a run, but he fanned Arencibia with a 3-2 splitter for the final out.
Gardner's homer provided the Yankees' first run and Ellsbury, who had one hit in 23 a-bats, gave them a second with his ninth homer in the third that cut the Rangers' lead to 3-2.
Lewis retired 11 of the next 12 batters he faced.
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