ARLINGTON -- When it rains, it pours. The Rangers’ offense had been stuck in a mini-drought, riding a six-game losing streak. On Monday night, it poured as Texas defeated Oakland, 8-3, at Globe Life Field.

Utility infielder Andy Ibáñez and catcher Jose Trevino both hit three-run home runs in the first and sixth, respectively, that drove most of the offensive output for the Rangers.

Ibáñez’s home run was his first Major League dinger, and it came in his first at-bat since being recalled to the big league roster. Ibáñez made his debut earlier this season but was optioned back to Triple-A Round Rock on May 21. With the Express, he was slashing .352/.410/.648 with a 1.058 OPS.

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Manager Chris Woodward said it was satisfying for Ibáñez to come back up and make an immediate impact on the big league squad.  

“I was super excited,” Ibáñez said through a translator about his home run. “I’ve been working hard down in Round Rock to do what I did today, and I’m super, super thankful that it turned out the way it did. I know a lot of things happen in baseball for a reason. I know that when they sent me down that I had to go down and work. I stayed really positive.” 

The Rangers’ offense jumped out to a quick start, erupting for five runs in the first inning against A’s starter Frankie Montas. All nine Texas hitters came to the plate in the first inning, notching five hits and a walk.

Every Rangers hitter reached base at least once during the game, and all but one recorded a hit. Woodward mentioned recently that the club was looking for production up and down the lineup -- Monday night was just that.

“Ideally, you would like [production] to come from everywhere,” Woodward said. “And you just don't know who's going to have the big game. Recently, I think we were all kind of searching for who that was going to be.  

“Then everybody's looking at everybody else instead of saying, ‘You know what? Let's just take ownership of this. ... I'm gonna have good, quality at-bats.' ... Today was just a grind from the start.” 

Woodward said that Brock Holt’s one-out single in the first inning ignited the offense right out of the gate, and the level of production the rest of the inning allowed the team to breathe and relax throughout the game.

Woodward also said the breathing room was important later in the game. as the A’s chipped away at their deficit with a run in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Rangers starter Kyle Gibson was impressive to start the game but wasn’t able to get out of the sixth inning. He went 5 1/3 innings, allowing just two runs on five hits. Gibson didn’t allow a hit until the fifth inning, when Sean Murphy launched a one-out solo home run over the left-field wall.

Gibson has gone three straight starts without a decision due to lack of run support. He now only has five decisions in 15 starts this season. However, Gibson thinks it’s not mentally sound to think about run support like that, on either side of the equation. 

“There have been times in my career where I've gotten early run support, and then allowed a team to chip away and get back in the game,” Gibson said. “But I understand the importance of putting up zeros and trying to really make sure that the offense knows that we’re going to make those five runs [in the first inning] stand up tonight.”