Yankees snap 6-game losing streak with 7-3 win over Angels

For the first time in a week, the Yankees looked like the Bronx Bombers again.

The Yankees awakened from their offensive slumber in Thursday afternoon’s 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels in the Bronx to snap a season-worst six-game losing streak.

Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt struck back-to-back home runs against Angels left-hander Tyler Anderson, giving the Yankees a lead that starter Carlos Rodón and the bullpen would not relinquish.

The Yankees (43-31) totaled only six runs during the six-game losing streak, a sudden slump that at one point included three consecutive shutouts and a 30.1-inning scoreless drought.

But the Yankees struck quickly Thursday.

After Mike Trout gave the Angels a 1-0 lead with a first-inning homer, the Yankees answered in the bottom of the inning with Giancarlo Stanton’s RBI force out to tie the score.

The Angels retook the lead with Jo Adell’s second-inning solo shot, but the Yankees responded again.

With two outs in the bottom of the second, Trent Grisham drilled a first-pitch sinker deep into the right-field stands for a two-run home run. Two pitches later, Goldschmidt pulled a 92-mph fastball over the left-field wall to put the Yankees up 4-2.

The three-run frame marked the Yankees’ first multi-run inning since Saturday.

That was enough run support for Rodón, who limited Los Angeles to three runs in six innings with seven strikeouts on 92 pitches to pick up the win.

That snapped a personal two-game losing streak for Rodón (9-5), who dropped back-to-back starts against the Boston Red Sox, allowing eight runs over 10 innings in those outings. Those losses followed a nine-game stretch in which Rodón went 7-0 with a 1.27 ERA.

Thursday marked the first time this season that Rodón surrendered three home runs, but each was a solo shot.

Taylor Ward’s sixth-inning homer cut the Angels’ deficit to 4-3, but the Yankees got that run back in the seventh on an RBI single by Cody Bellinger.

Aaron Judge led off the eighth with a 109.9-mph double to snap a 0-for-12 slide, then scored on an Anthony Volpe groundout. Austin Wells added a sacrifice fly in that inning to cap the scoring.

Mark Leiter Jr., Jonathan Loáisiga and Devin Williams hurled a scoreless inning apiece to ice a win that was interrupted by two rain delays, including one in the second inning that lasted only eight minutes.

The win was the Yankees’ first since last Thursday, when they defeated the Kansas City Royals, 1-0.

The Yankees entered Thursday with seven runs over their previous seven games, which included a three-game sweep in Boston and three home losses against the Angels. It was the Yankees’ first seven-game stretch with seven or fewer runs and six or more losses since 1908.

The Yankees finished with 12 hits on Thursday, though they still made their share of offensive miscues.

With runners on first and second in the sixth, Wells took off from first, drawing a pickoff throw that ultimately resulted in Volpe being caught in a rundown for the inning’s final out. An inning later, Bellinger was thrown out trying to stretch his run-scoring single into a double.

But the Yankees delivered enough offense to snap their longest losing streak since August of 2023.

The Yankees will look to continue their winning ways on Friday night, when they begin a three-game series against the fifth-place Baltimore Orioles. Max Fried (9-2, 1.89 ERA) is set to pitch for the Yankees, while the O’s have not announced a starter.

It will be the Orioles’ first trip to the Bronx since September, when the Yankees clinched last year’s American League East crown over them with a head-to-head victory.