NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Alfonso Soriano hit his 31st home run Monday to break Joe Gordon's franchise record for second baseman as the New York Yankees routed the Texas Rangers, 10-3, to gain a split of their four-game series.
Soriano paced a 19-hit attack with three RBI, adding a two-run single to raise his season total to 82 in the leadoff spot.
On the Yankees' last road trip, he became the first second baseman in major league history to have 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in the same season.
There were other milestones for the Yankees as Derek Jeter joined Ted Williams and Earl Coombs as the only players to score 100 runs in each of their first seven major league seasons.
Bernie Williams went 3-for-6 to extend his hitting streak to 17 games and also collected his 1,803th career hit to tie Roy White for ninth on the Yankees' all-time list.
Jason Giambi got into the act with a run-scoring RBI single in the eighth that enabled him to reach the century mark in RBI for the fifth straight year.
Orlando Hernandez (7-3) recorded the win, allowing two runs and six hits over six innings with a walk and eight strikeouts. He blanked the Rangers until giving up back-to-back homers to Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro in the top of the sixth.
Jeff Weaver pitched the final three innings to register his second save, striking out five of the last six batters he faced.
After scoring just seven runs in the first three games of the series, the Yankees had their way with Kenny Rogers (12-7), who gave up seven runs, a career-high 13 hits and four walks in five-plus innings.
Rogers allowed runs in every inning except the first and in that frame he was helped out by his defense as left fielder Kevin Mench threw out Giambi trying to score on Williams' single.
The Yankees scored single runs in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings, then broke open the contest with five in the sixth.
