OAKLAND -- Manager Chris Woodward is big on scoring first, and the Rangers failed to do so for the second straight night Friday.

The Rangers were still able to rally and win their second straight over the Athletics. The comeback win has not been the Rangers' forte this season, but they wiped out a 2-0 Oakland lead with three runs in the top of the fourth on their way to a 5-2 victory at the Oakland Coliseum.

The Rangers trailed 3-0 on Thursday night before storming back for an 11-3 win that snapped their six-game losing streak at the Coliseum.

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“This is a place that’s hard to win games,” Woodward said. “We had a tough time last time we were here. We haven’t been winning a ton of games lately. It’s a resilient bunch, we’re starting to feel better about the way we are swinging the bat, the quality of at-bats are better.”

The Rangers are much better when scoring first. They are 34-15 when that happens, and they were 17-37 when the other team scored first before these two wins against the Athletics.

“Against the odds,” Woodward said. “I’d rather score first still. It’s not something I would recommend doing every night. But we are not going to give up when we fall behind.”

Rangers starter Lance Lynn earned his 13th win by holding the Athletics to two runs in six innings. He threw 111 pitches, including 34 in a first inning in which he overcame two errors by shortstop Danny Santana to hold the Athletics to one run.

“Everybody is out there trying to make every play they can,” Lynn said. “Just like pitchers aren’t trying to give up runs, so you try to help as much as you. But it’s all about trying to make the next pitch and not worrying about what happened on the last at-bat or the last pitch."

Lynn was also helped by his defense. Center fielder Delino DeShields went to the wall in the second inning, leaped up and took a home run away from Chris Herrmann.

“I think the game was similar to yesterday,” Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. “It felt like we were off to a good lead. We had guys on base and had a really good pitcher on the run. He got out of the first with one run and was a little different guy after that. We put a bunch of pitches on him and looked like even if we weren’t going to score, we might get him out of the game earlier. But he got back into it and got early count outs as it went along and ended up giving them what they needed to win the game. We weren’t able to finish him off.”

This marked the 17th straight start that Lynn has pitched at least six innings. That’s tied with Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers for the longest such streak in the Majors this year. It is tied for third longest in Rangers history. The record is 27 straight by Kevin Brown in 1992.

“In all honesty it was a battle all night,” Lynn said. “It was one of those things, got through six and gave the team a chance to win. Nothing else really. That was a tough one. That’s what it felt like.”

The Rangers' comeback was fueled by two-out hits in the fourth against Athletics starter Daniel Mengden. Shin-Soo Choo led off with a walk, and Mengden retired the next two hitters on popups. But Nomar Mazara followed with a ground-ball double through the right-side shift to score Choo from first base. Willie Calhoun’s double to left scored Mazara, and Asdrubal Cabrera brought home the go-ahead run with a single to right.

Cabrera also had an RBI single in the sixth, and Calhoun hit his sixth home run of the year in the eighth. Calhoun finished 2-for-3 on the night, his first big game at the Coliseum. Calhoun is from the Bay Area town of Benicia, just northeast of Oakland.

“Yeah, it’s big because this is my hometown,” Calhoun said. “You want to come back and do well. It’s all good to do that. It felt good."