KANSAS CITY (Interstat) — The Kansas City Royals snapped a three-game losing streak against the Texas Rangers with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium, powered by a four-run sixth inning that erased a 1-0 deficit.

Attendance was 25,075, and the game lasted 2 hours, 35 minutes.

The Rangers jumped ahead with a run in the second inning, added another in the fourth and took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth. The Royals answered with a solo home run from rookie Jac Caglianone in the fifth, then broke the game open with four runs in the sixth.

Caglianone finished 3-for-3 with two homers and three RBIs, including a two-run blast in the sixth that put Kansas City ahead for good. The 22-year-old right fielder also singled in the eighth, reaching base in all four plate appearances.

Stephen Kolek turned in a strong start for Kansas City, allowing one run on eight hits over five innings with three strikeouts and no walks. He left with the game tied 1-1, but the Royals’ bullpen held Texas scoreless over the final four innings.

Steven Cruz earned the win, improving to 1-2, after pitching 1 1/3 scoreless innings with two strikeouts and no hits allowed. Alex Lange recorded his fourth save of the season with a scoreless ninth, striking out two.

Texas starter Nathan Eovaldi took the loss, falling to 5-7. He allowed five runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings, walking two and striking out three. The damage came largely in the sixth, when the Royals sent eight batters to the plate.

The Rangers scored first in the second inning. Wyatt Langford walked, and Ezequiel Duran doubled to put runners at second and third. Jake Burger singled to left, scoring Langford and moving Duran to third. But the inning ended when Evan Carter grounded into a fielder’s choice that cut down Duran at home, and Kyle Higashioka grounded into a double play.

Texas made it 2-0 in the fourth. Evan Carter singled with one out but was stranded after Higashioka flied out.

The Rangers added a run in the seventh after Joc Pederson tripled and scored on a Corey Seager groundout. But that was all they could muster against Kansas City’s relief corps.

Kolek worked out of trouble in the early innings, stranding two runners in the third and two more in the fifth. He allowed singles to Josh Jung and Brandon Nimmo in the third but got Langford to pop out. In the fifth, Jung and Nimmo singled again, but Langford flied out to end the threat.

The Royals’ offense awoke in the fifth when Caglianone launched his seventh homer of the season to right-center field, cutting the lead to 1-0. It was his first of two long balls on the night.

The decisive sixth inning began with Carter Jensen doubling to right field. Bobby Witt Jr. grounded out, moving Jensen to third. Maikel Garcia then tripled to right-center, scoring Jensen and tying the game at 1-1. Vinnie Pasquantino followed with a ground-rule double to center, scoring Garcia and giving Kansas City its first lead at 2-1.

Salvador Perez popped out for the second out, but Caglianone stepped in and crushed his second homer of the game, an eighth-inning blast to right-center that scored Pasquantino and extended the lead to 4-1. Michael Massey doubled after the homer, but Isaac Collins grounded out to end the inning.

Texas got one run back in the seventh when Pederson tripled and scored on Seager’s groundout. But the Rangers could not mount a rally against Cruz, who retired all four batters he faced, and Lange, who worked a 1-2-3 ninth with two strikeouts.

Kansas City’s bullpen allowed just one hit over four innings, and the defense behind it was solid. Jensen threw out a runner attempting to steal in the first inning, and the Royals turned a double play in the second to erase a scoring threat.

For the Rangers, Josh Jung had two hits and Nimmo added two singles. Seager singled in the first and drove in a run in the seventh. But Texas left six runners on base and went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position.

The Royals improved to 28-39, while the Rangers fell to 32-34. Kansas City had lost the previous three meetings with Texas this season by a combined score of 22-10, including a 9-1 defeat on May 29 in Arlington. Tuesday’s victory gave the Royals their first win in the season series.

Texas will look to bounce back Wednesday when the teams meet again at Kauffman Stadium. The Rangers then travel to Boston for a three-game series starting Friday. Kansas City hosts the Astros for three games beginning Friday before a road trip to Washington.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Texas 6, Kansas City 4. Interstat’s ELO system had given Texas a 51.70 percent probability to win. The Rangers were installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total score of eight went under the over/under line of nine.