ARLINGTON -- If Mariners starter Mike Leake could erase the Rangers from his season, he’d be having a pretty good year. Unfortunately, his Texas troubles arose again in a 10-9 setback on Monday night as Seattle’s struggles continued.

The Rangers slugged five home runs in the series opener and three came off Leake in his five innings as the veteran right-hander fell to 3-5 with a 4.73 ERA. He gave up 11 hits and seven runs in the 84-pitch outing on a windy evening at Globe Life Park.

Leake’s two worst starts of the season have come against the Rangers, who’ve tagged him for 21 hits and 16 runs (12 earned) in 10 innings. Take away those two outings and he’s 3-3 with a 3.49 ERA.

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“Sometimes aggressive teams give me fits,” Leake said. “They attack me early and sometimes it takes an inning or two for me to get going. Today was kind of that day, they were there early and I didn’t quite react quick enough.”

The Mariners hit two home runs of their own -- a grand slam by Tim Beckham in the eighth and two-run shot by Daniel Vogelbach with two out in the ninth -- but that merely reduced the final margin of a game that got away early. Beckham went 3-for-3 with a walk and five RBIs.

“It was a good comeback by the team, but we’ve got to win some more games,” Beckham said. “Losing is not fun. Losing is not fun at all and I’m sure everyone in here feels the same way. We need to win games. I don’t care if it’s 10-9 or 10-2, a loss is a loss. We made a good comeback, but we lost.”

The Mariners -- who opened the season setting home run records by their offense during a 13-2 start -- have seen that script flipped dramatically as their pitching staff has now surrendered 87 long balls in 50 games, second most in the Majors behind only the Orioles with 97.

Seattle has gone 5-16 since April 27, having been outscored, 161-85, while dropping from first place in the American League West to last at 23-27. Texas has won five of its last six to climb to 22-23.

Leake struggled with the long ball early this season, but he had allowed just one over his previous three starts while posting a 2.29 ERA.

The Rangers wasted no time jumping on the 31-year-old right-hander, however, with Rougned Odor pounding a three-run blast in the first -- which traveled a projected 458 feet, according to Statcast, into the second deck -- and Asdrubal Cabrera following with a solo shot.

Cabrera added another with a leadoff homer in the fourth as Leake surrendered three homers in a game for the third time in 10 starts this season.

“We did some really good things against Leake,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. “I know we hit him really hard last time, but we figured he would come out and make some adjustments against our lineup, and we did a really good job of sticking to our game plan that we had talked about before the game. It was impressive to see our guys attack the strike zone early with him. We knew that he was going to try to maybe do something a little bit different, and we were ready for him.”

Leake said he didn’t help himself by keeping the ball down on a day any drive up in the air was going to carry well.

“I knew it was windy and I know this ballpark has that chance of what they did today,” said Leake, who had a 1.89 ERA in three prior starts in Arlington. “Unfortunately, they were able to lift balls and I didn’t challenge them enough in that first inning with balls out of the zone.”

Late punch for the offense

Rangers starter Mike Minor extended his scoreless-innings streak at Globe Life Park to a club record 29 innings before allowing a pair of runs in the sixth. But the Mariners didn’t make much noise until the final two innings after rallying from a 10-2 deficit.

Beckham’s slam off Shelby Miller in the eighth lifted his season total to nine homers with 25 RBIs, while his three hits helped reverse a recent slide. The veteran infielder opened the season hitting .410 with four homers and 11 RBIs in his first 10 games, but he had batted just .196 (22-for-112) with four homers and 10 RBIs in 32 games until Monday’s breakout.

“He was so hot early in the season, it’d be nice to see his bat get warmed up again,” manager Scott Servais said.

Vogelbach took the team lead in home runs with his 14th of the season in the ninth and he went 2-for-2 after replacing first baseman Ryon Healy, whose lower back tightened up after his third at-bat in the sixth inning.