Texas 7 at Athletics 5 - Recap

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Texas Rangers continued their power assault on the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.

The Rangers struck for four home runs -- two each by Rougned Odor and catcher Robinson Chirinos -- to rally from a 5-0 deficit and to a 7-5 win.

Reliever Nick Martinez (1-1) earned the win while closer Sam Dyson picked up his 11th save as Texas moved a season-high 16 games over .500 in handing the Athletics their ninth loss in 11 games.

The Rangers have hit 17 home runs in the first six games of their season-high 10-game road trip. With 10 homers in the first three games of the series, Texas is the first team to hit at least three long balls in three straight games in Oakland, home of the A's franchise since 1968.

It also marked the first time in major league history two natives of Venezuela have enjoyed multi-homer games on the same night.

Odor hit his second consecutive homer, and 12th of the season, deep into the right field bleachers off left-handed Oakland reliever Sean Doolittle with two outs in the eighth inning to give the visitors a seventh unanswered run and two-run cushion.

The ninth-hitting Chirinos hit his second homer of the game with one out in the seventh inning off of Oakland reliever John Axford, who had not been touched for a run in his last seven outings.

Chirinos belted a 1-1 pitch deep into the left-field bleachers to break a 5-5 tie. It marked his second career two-homer game with the last coming on Aug. 5, 2014. Chirinos doubled his home run total to four with his third in two nights.

Gray was sailing along with 70 pitches through five scoreless innings during which he scattered three hits, struck out three and walked only one.

But in the span of seven hitters and 19 pitches in the sixth, Gray surrendered the lead all in one giant swoop.

Chirinos homered to start the frame. Shin-Soo Choo and Ian Desmond traded places with back-to-back doubles. Desmond scored two batters later when Prince Fielder lifted a sacrifice fly to deep center.

Texas capped the tying rally after two were out as Jurickson Profar singled to left-center and Odor drove a 1-0 pitch off-field and just over the left field fence to tie the game.

Texas starter Derek Holland hoped his last outing -- five earned runs allowed over five innings -- was an aberration after piling up four straight quality starts. But the left-hander fell into a similar pattern against Oakland.

It started well enough as Holland retired the first six batters. In the span of the six batters he faced to start the third, though, Holland was tagged for three runs and four hits.

A's shortstop Marcus Semien swatted an off-field single on a 2-2 pitch before right fielder Jake Smolinski planted his third home run of the season into the left-field bleachers on a 2-1 count.

Center fielder Billy Burns doubled on the line in right and scored following a walk to second baseman Jed Lowrie on a single to center by third baseman Danny Valencia, who extended his hitting streak to eight games.

Oakland scored twice in the fourth, chasing Holland in the process.

Josh Phegley and Smolinski walked and Holland exited after striking out first baseman Yonder Alonso on his 92nd pitch of the game for the inning's second out. Burns greeted reliever Nick Martinez with an RBI double to left-center that produced a second run when Texas center fielder Ian Desmond bobbled the ball for an error.

NOTES: A's manager Bob Melvin said RF Josh Reddick (fractured left thumb) plans to take batting practice before Friday's game against the Angels and a rehabilitation stint could follow. Reddick has been out since May 20. The Rangers came in a season-high 15 games over .500 for the second time. ... Oakland RHP Henderson Alvarez continued his rehabilitation from shoulder surgery with a 45-pitch bullpen session Wednesday, and plans to start for Triple-A Nashville on Saturday when he hopes to pitch five or six innings. Alvarez, 26, signed in the offseason and has yet to debut with Oakland.