Kyle Hendricks excels, Angels blank Yankees again

Kyle Hendricks stuck out nine and pitched six solid innings as the Los Angeles Angels earned their fourth straight win at Yankee Stadium with a 4-0 victory over the slumping New York Yankees Tuesday night.

The Yankees lost their season-high fifth straight game, were shut out for a third straight game and have not scored in 29 innings. It was the seventh time in team history and first time since Sept. 22-Sept. 24, 2016 the Yankees were blanked in a third straight game.

New York slugger Aaron Judge struck out three times and his average dropped to .372. It was the ninth time this season and fourth time in five games Judge struck out three times.

Luis Rengifo hit an RBI single in the second off New York rookie Will Warren (4-4) and Taylor Ward added a two-run single as the Angels won a fourth straight game against the Yankees in New York for the first time since Aug. 21, 1996 to April 15, 1997.

The Angels also posted shutouts in consecutive games against the Yankees for the first time since May 12-13, 1999 at the previous Yankee Stadium.

Hendricks (5-6) entered with a 5.20 ERA and kept the Yankees off-balance without throwing a pitch over 87.3 mph.

Hendricks allowed two of his four hits to Giancarlo Stanton along with a double to Cody Bellinger and a single to Jasson Dominguez.

The right-hander finished with at least nine strikeouts for the first time since getting 10 in eight innings for the Chicago Cubs against the Minnesota Twins on Sept. 18, 2020.

Ryan Zeferjahn, Reid Detmers and Hunter Strickland pitched an inning apiece to complete the four-hitter.

The Angels went ahead in the second as Logan O'Hoppe doubled to left and scored when New York second baseman DJ LeMahieu could not complete a diving stop on Rengifo's ground ball, which went to right field for a single.

With one out in the third, the Angels loaded the bases on three straight singles. Ward singled to left field for an RBI on a ball that eluded New York third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr.

The Angels added their fourth run in the seventh on a bases-loaded groundout by Nolan Schanuel after Jo Adell reached on catcher's interference and Zach Neto was hit by a pitch from Ian Hamilton.

Warren allowed three runs on six hits in six innings. The right-hander struck out a career-high 11 and walked none.

The Yankees were blanked for the fifth time this season and had three at-bats with runners in scoring position after going 1-for-18 Monday.

--Field Level Media