ARLINGTON, Texas (Interstat) — Max Fried pitched six scoreless innings and Aaron Judge went 3-for-3 with a home run as the New York Yankees defeated the Texas Rangers 4-2 on Monday night at Globe Life Park.

Fried (4-1) scattered four hits, struck out five and walked none in his second consecutive strong start. He improved to 4-1 after allowing three hits over eight shutout innings in his previous outing against Boston. The left-hander retired 10 of the first 11 batters he faced and did not allow a runner to reach scoring position until the fourth inning.

The Yankees broke the game open in the third inning, scoring three runs against Rangers starter Jack Leiter. After José Caballero singled and Trent Grisham reached on an infield single, Ben Rice crushed a sinker to center field for a two-run homer, his 10th of the season. Judge followed by lining a solo shot to left field, his 11th, to make it 3-0.

New York extended the lead in the fourth when Jazz Chisholm Jr. led off with a home run to right-center field, his third of the year, pushing the advantage to 4-0.

Leiter (1-2) allowed four runs on eight hits over six innings, striking out four and walking one. He was touched for the three-run third and the solo homer by Chisholm.

Texas mounted a late rally. Joc Pederson led off the seventh with a home run to left-center field off Tim Hill, cutting the deficit to 4-1. In the ninth, the Rangers scored again. With one out, Jake Burger singled off closer David Bednar and advanced to second on a groundout. After a strikeout, Josh Smith reached on a fielding error by second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., putting runners at the corners. Alejandro Osuna then singled to center, scoring Burger, but Osuna was forced out at second on a grounder by Ezequiel Duran to end the game.

Bednar earned his eighth save of the season, working the ninth inning and allowing two hits and one unearned run while striking out one.

Judge finished 3-for-3 with two doubles, a home run and a walk. Rice went 1-for-4 with the homer and two RBIs. Chisholm had one hit, the solo homer, in four at-bats.

For Texas, Pederson was 1-for-2 with a pinch-hit homer. Brandon Nimmo had a single in the first inning and Josh Jung added a single in the fourth. Kyle Higashioka singled in the second.

Peyton Gray pitched two scoreless innings of relief for Texas, allowing one hit and striking out one. Gavin Collyer worked a scoreless eighth.

The Yankees improved to 19-10 while the Rangers fell to 14-15. The crowd of 29,601 watched the game in 2 hours, 48 minutes.

New York won its fifth consecutive game and completed a three-game sweep of the Rangers, following a sweep of Boston over the weekend. The Yankees have won 11 of their last 13 contests.

Texas has lost three straight after dropping three of four to over the weekend.

The teams meet again Tuesday in the second game of this four-game series.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of New York Yankees 8, Texas Rangers 4. Interstat’s ELO system gave the Yankees a 55.70 percent probability to win. New York was installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total score of 6 went over the over/under line of 8.