ARLINGTON, Texas — Can’t blow a lead if you never get one.
On a day that began with Aaron Boone announcing that he would at least be opening up the closer role, in the wake of Clay Holmes blowing an 11th save Tuesday night in a crushing loss, the Yankees never got a chance to find out who might get first dibs.
Marcus Stroman got hit around across an ineffective 3 ²/₃ innings, which instead relegated the bullpen to mop-up duty as the Yankees fell to the Rangers 10-6 on Wednesday night at Globe Life Field.
It was a 10-2 game entering the ninth before the Rangers helped the Yankees put lipstick on a pig.
They walked the bases loaded with two outs for Trent Grisham, who hit a grand slam off the right-field foul pole.
The Yankees then put runners on the corners and even forced Rangers closer Kirby Yates into the game to get Giancarlo Stanton to fly out to the left-field wall, where Wyatt Langford made a terrific leaping…
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