Cliff Lee recorded a career playoff-high 13 strikeouts and tossed eight scoreless innings while leading the Texas Rangers to an 8-0 win over the New York Yankees Monday evening at Yankee Stadium.

The victory gives the Rangers a two-to-one game lead over the Yankees in the best-of-seven AL Championship Series, and improves Texas’ road record to 4-0 during the 2010 postseason.

Lee (1-0) allowed no runs on two hits with one walk and has now held opponents to one earned run or less in seven of his eight career postseason starts.

Yankees’ left-handed starter Andy Pettitte (0-1) was the losing pitcher, allowing two runs and striking out five in seven innings of work.

The Rangers’ offense totaled 11 hits and scored two runs in the first and six in the ninth.

Texas centerfielder Josh Hamilton (2-for-5) launched a two-run homer to right field to give the Rangers a 2-0 advantage in the first.

With Hamilton’s blast, the Rangers have homered in each of the team’s eight games this postseason.

Lee struck out at least one batter in every inning he pitched, and fanned two Yankees’ hitters in the second, third, fourth, fifth and eighth innings.

The 32-year-old Lee retired the first 11 batters he faced before walking New York first baseman Mark Teixeira with two outs in the fourth.

Yankees’ catcher Jorge Posada scratched out the first hit off of Lee in fifth with a two-out flair to right field, but Lee got Curtis Granderson to swing and miss at a 92-mile per hour fastball to end the inning.

New York left fielder Brett Gardner would be the final Yankee to reach base, leading off the sixth inning with a base hit to center field.

The Yankees would leave Gardner stranded on third base, however, after a Derek Jeter strikeout and consecutive groundouts by Nick Swisher and Teixeira.

Texas added to its lead in the ninth with six hits and five runs. Left fielder Nelson Cruz and catcher Bengie Molina both knocked RBI singles to left field that scored Hamilton and pinch-runner Julio Borbon.

With the bases loaded, first baseman Mitch Moreland lined a double down the right-field line to plate Cruz and pinch-hitter David Murphy.

Shortstop Elvis Andrus then drove in Molina on a run-scoring double to right. Moreland touched home plate for the Rangers’ final run, scoring from third on a wild pitch by Yankees’ reliever Sergio Mitre, making the game 8-0.

Texas closer Neftali Feliz recorded two strikeouts in a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.

Rangers’ third baseman Michael Young went 3-for-5 with a run scored and raised his series batting average to .400.

Game 4 of the ALCS will be played Tuesday, Oct. 19, with a 7:07 p.m. first pitch scheduled for Yankee Stadium.