ARLINGTON, Texas _ The Padres might have been on their way to stealing a game on Monday night.
Then they gave it away.
Playing without Eric Hosmer against a starting pitcher who had sailed through the past two months, the Padres jumped to a lead and then watched it flit away in a sixth inning that featured five singles, a brutally blown call by the umpire crew, two sacrifice flies and an error.
The Rangers did all their damage in a 7-4 victory against a suddenly crumbly Padres bullpen.
A day after Brad Hand blew his second save in two chances, it was a group effort on Monday.
It wasn't that an American League team _ albeit one with a lower team batting average than the Padres _ was able to overcome a 4-1 lead with four innings to play.
It's that it took them just one inning to do so.
Craig Stammen, who had come on to strand two runners by getting the final out of the fifth inning after Robert Stock had allowed the Rangers their first run, got the first out of the sixth.
He then allowed two singles before getting robbed of a strikeout of Robinson Chirino, who fouled a ball into catcher Austin Hedges' glove.
Home plate umpire Tony Randazzo called Chirino out. Rangers manager Jeff Banister came out of the dugout and asked for the umpires to convene. After a brief consultation, they overturned a call that replays seemed to clearly indicate had originally been correct.
The next pitch from Stammen was smacked into left field by Chirino, bringing home the first run of the inning.
Ronald Guzman followed by sending a high fly ball to the warning track in right field just where the wall juts in. In a swirling wind, Hunter Renfroe appeared to have tracked down the ball but was unable to catch it. Two runs scored on what was ruled a sacrifice fly and error.
That got the Rangers to 4-3 and brought Adam Cimber into the game.
Delino DeShields' single on an 0-2 pitch tied the game. An infield single by Sin-Shoo Choo gave the Rangers the lead. Another sacrifice fly made it 6-4.
The Rangers would add a run off Robbie Erlin in the seventh.
All this came after the Padres, with a scuffling Hosmer getting a rest day, got a three-run homer from Manuel Margot in the fifth and a solo home run by Jose Pirela in the sixth.
The Padres score four runs in five innings off Rangers starter Cole Hamels, who had a 2.81 ERA over his previous 10 starts. The Padres' nine hits were the most Hamels allowed all season.
Padres starter Joey Lucchesi allowed one hit in four scoreless innings in his second start since returning from the disabled list.
