Baseball: Tanaka allows 6 runs, tagged with loss as Yankees routed by Rangers

Masahiro Tanaka was tagged with his first loss since April for allowing six runs over five-plus innings Friday in the New York Yankees' 12-7 loss to the Texas Rangers.Tanaka (9-3) gave up six hits, including three homers, and three walks, while striking out two at Yankee Stadium.The Japanese right-hander started out with three scoreless innings, holding the Rangers to one walk and a single. However, he surrendered a leadoff single and a pair of home runs to Adrian Beltre and Ronald Guzman in the three-run fourth.But it was not over. In the fifth, Elvis Andrus doubled in two runs after Tanak…READ FULL ARTICLE