Yankees bats finally awaken to avoid 4-game sweep to Angels

Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt hit back-to-back home runs as the host New York Yankees stopped a season-high six-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday afternoon.

Carlos Rodon (9-5) overcame allowing three solo homers and pitched six quality innings as the Yankees avoided losing seven straight for the first time since a nine-game slide from Aug. 12-22, 2023. It also halted New York's five-game home losing streak.

The teams played through an eight-minute rain delay after the Angels batted in the second and 35-minute stoppage in the eighth.

The Yankees' offense exceeded their run total from their six-game slide (six). Grisham and Goldschmidt went deep in the second inning off Tyler Anderson (2-5) to make it 4-2 after Giancarlo Stanton had an RBI groundout in the first.

Cody Bellinger collected three hits with an RBI single in the seventh for a 5-3 lead as the Yankees finished with 12 hits. Anthony Volpe added an RBI groundout and Austin Wells lifted a sacrifice fly following the second delay.

Rodon allowed solo homers to Mike Trout, Jo Adell and Taylor Ward but held the Angels to four hits and improved to 8-2 in his past 12 starts. The left-hander struck out seven, walked one and notched several outs with his slider.

The Angels were unable to complete their first four-game sweep of the Yankees in team history. Los Angeles also saw a team-record five-game winning streak at Yankee Stadium halted and came up shy of reaching .500 for the first time since May 23.

Trout opened the scoring by hammering Rodon's 1-1 fastball into the Los Angeles bullpen beyond the left-center-field fence for his third homer since being activated off the injured list.

After Goldschmidt doubled, he took third on an infield single by Bellinger and scored when Stanton was able to avoid a double play.

Adell gave the Angels a 2-1 lead by hammering a 1-0 fastball into the right-center-field seats.

Following a two-out single by DJ LeMahieu, Grisham hit Anderson's first-pitch sinker to the right field bleachers and Goldschmidt followed with a shot down the left field line.

Anderson allowed four on eight hits in six innings. The left-hander struck out four, walked two and lost his fifth straight decision.

Mark Leiter Jr. pitched a 1-2-3 seventh, Jonathan Loaisiga stranded Trout in the eighth and Devin Wiliams pitched the ninth in a non-save situation.

--Field Level Media