BUG: `DataFrame.rank` & `Series.rank` results are inconsistent

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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy as np
>>> values = [-np.inf, 0, np.inf, np.nan, 2, np.nan]         
>>> s = pd.Series(values)
>>> s
0   -inf
1    0.0
2    inf
3    NaN
4    2.0
5    NaN
dtype: float64
>>> kwargs = {'method': 'dense', 'na_option': 'bottom', 'ascending': False, 'pct': False, 'numeric_only': False}
>>> s.rank(**kwargs)
0    4.0
1    3.0
2    1.0
3    5.0
4    2.0
5    5.0
dtype: float64
>>> pd.DataFrame({'a':s}).rank(**kwargs)
     a
0  4.0
1  3.0
2  1.0
3  4.0
4  2.0
5  4.0
>>> 

Problem description

The results being returned by Series.rank & DataFrame.rank seem to be inconsistent.

Expected Output

Output of DataFrame.rank must be returned correctly(as is being done by Series.rank)

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 5f648bf1706dd75a9ca0d29f26eadfbb595fe52b python : 3.8.10.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 5.11.0-27-generic Version : #29~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 11 15:58:17 UTC 2021 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.3.2 numpy : 1.21.2 pytz : 2021.1 dateutil : 2.8.2 pip : 21.2.4 setuptools : 57.4.0 Cython : 0.29.24 pytest : 6.2.4 hypothesis : 6.17.2 sphinx : 4.1.2 blosc : None feather : None xlsxwriter : None lxml.etree : None html5lib : None pymysql : None psycopg2 : None jinja2 : 3.0.1 IPython : 7.27.0 pandas_datareader: None bs4 : 4.9.3 bottleneck : None fsspec : 2021.07.0 fastparquet : None gcsfs : None matplotlib : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : None pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : 5.0.0 pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : None sqlalchemy : None tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None xlwt : None numba : 0.53.1

[phofl]

But you are correct, this was fixed by #41931

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This works on master