NEW YORK — The Angels beat up on the New York Yankees with a steady stream of two-out gut punches.
The Angels scored six runs in the fifth inning of their 9-4 victory over the Yankees on Thursday night, all of them coming on two-out hits from Kevin Pillar, Jo Adell and Mickey Moniak.
After losing the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader, the Angels (51-64) outscored the Yankees, 17-6, in back-to-back victories to win a series at Yankee Stadium for the first time since 2017.
The beneficiary of the big offensive night was Tyler Anderson, who gave up one run in six innings.
Anderson had a lead before he threw his first pitch of the game, thanks to Nolan Schanuel’s 12th homer of the season, which led off the game. Schanuel, who had three hits, drove in a run to put the Angels ahead 2-1 in the third.
Then the Angels rained runs on the Yankees as the clouds were showering the Bronx.
There were two outs and a runner at first when Zach Neto came to the plate against Yankees lefty Nestor Cortes. Neto yanked a double – one of his three hits – down the left field line, sending Michael Stefanic to third. Logan O’Hoppe then drew a walk to load the bases.
Pillar, whose specialty has been hitting lefties, fell behind 0-and-2 and then threw his bat at a pitch well off the plate, dumping it into right field for a two-run single.
The Yankees then brought in right-hander Enyel De Los Santos, and he walked Anthony Rendon to load the bases again.
Adell followed by hitting a soft liner that dropped in front of diving right fielder Juan Soto, clearing the bases.
Brandon Drury then drew another walk, and Moniak followed with a single into right, pushing the lead to 8-1.
After all that, Anderson needed just 12 pitches to post a zero in the bottom of the inning.
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Anderson gave up only a second-inning homer to Jazz Chisholm Jr., while staying out of trouble against stars Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. They were 0 for 6 against Anderson.
He struck out Aaron Judge twice, getting him swinging through a changeup in the first inning and getting him to look at a fastball on the outside corner in the fourth. Anderson got Judge to break his bat on a groundout in the sixth.
The Angels also made a couple of nice defensive plays. Rendon charged a bouncer at third and made a strong throw to get DJ LeMahieu in the second inning. Moniak made a leaping catch at the fence to rob Soto of an extra-base hit in the sixth. Adell made a nice catch of a sinking liner that Judge hit in the eighth.
More to come on this story.
