OAKLAND, Calif. — The Athletics awoke in the ninth inning, but a four-run rally wasn’t enough in a 12-11 loss to the Texas Rangers in a doubleheader split Wednesday at the Coliseum.

The Athletics won the first game, 9-4, with Shea Langeliers hitting a home run, double and single for five RBIs and starting pitcher J.P. Sears getting the win with 5 2/3 innings of work. It snapped a three-game losing streak.

Langeliers also homered and drove in three runs in the second game, setting an Oakland franchise record for RBIs in a doubleheader with eight.

Paid attendance over the two games was 8,230,although it appeared a few thousand fans or more didn’t stick around for the second game.

In losing three of four to the Rangers, the Athletics fall to 18-21 to finish a 6-4 homestand. Texas improves to 22-17. The A’s get Thursday off before a 10-game road trip to Seattle, Houston and Kansas City.

Langeliers homered for the A’s in the second inning, his ninth of the season and second of the day. Tyler Soderstrom, who arrived from Las Vegas Wednesday, hit a two-run home run in the fourth, his first.

Soderstrom’s two-run home run off Leiter, which brought in Max Schuemann, brought the Athletics within 7-6 in the fourth inning.

It stayed that way until the eighth, when Texas scored three times against Kyle Muller on an RBI double from Adolis Garcia and run-scoring singles from Josh Smith and Jonah Heim.

The A’s got a run in the eighth on a fielders choice by J.J. Bleday against Jose LeClerc, but it came opening the inning with runners at second and third and none out after a walk by Brett Harris and a double by Abraham Toro.

Texas had two more add-on runs in the ninth against Easton Lucas, recalled from Las Vegas, on run-scoring singles by Evan Carter and Nathaniel Lowe.

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