ANAHEIM, Calif. — In this age of velocity-chasing pitchers — both of the starter and reliever variety — soft-tossers such as Ryan Yarbrough stand out more than they ever have.

“He does it a different kind of way,” Aaron Boone said before Monday night’s game.

Meaning an array of pitches, everything from a rarely-touches-90-mph-fastball to a cutter, sinker, changeup and sweeper, the latter often arriving around or below the typical rural interstate speed limit.

“You might see a pitch under 70 miles per hour tonight,” Boone said.

There weren’t any of those, but there was at least one 70-mph sweeper. More important for Yarbrough and the Yankees, there was little in the way of hard contact by the Angels and few hits.

Yarbrough gave up a home run on his sixth pitch of the night but allowed only one other hit in his six terrific innings. The lefthander, inserted into the rotation as the fifth starter three weeks ago, was backed by a three-run double by Anthony Volpe that capped a four-run fourth as the Yankees earned a 5-1 victory over the Angels in front of a sellout crowd of 43,626 at Angel Stadium, the majority of whom were rooting for the visitors.

“I’ve never been the guy to blow up a radar gun,” said Yarbrough, who often changes up his arm slot in his delivery. “Hearing feedback from guys, it’s just a different look, it’s a little unorthodox, not something they’re used to seeing every day.”

Yarbrough, a little-paid-attention-to signing late in spring training by the Yankees, came into the night 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA in his three previous starts. He allowed one run, two hits and a walk in an efficient 88-pitch outing in which he struck out seven.

Volpe said “it’s a treat” watching Yarbrough carve his way through a lineup and Boone said the outing was “fun to watch. Really fun to watch.”

The Yankees (33-20) have been having their share of fun of late, winning seven of their last eight and 14 of 18.

“Every night we’re going out with confidence and confidence in each other,” Volpe said. “We just feel really good about the brand of baseball we’re playing.”

The Yankees, off to a 3-1 start on this three-city, nine-game western trip, had a relatively quiet night at the plate. Two of their six hits were by Cody Bellinger, who went 2-for-3 with a bases-loaded walk for the first run of the fourth and who is in a 28-for-77 (.364) stretch.

Angels righty Jack Kochanowicz, who came in 3-5 with a 5.03 ERA, retired the first nine Yankees before getting roughed up.

Kochanowicz entered the fourth with a 1-0 lead, courtesy of Zach Neto, who led off the bottom of the first by hammering Yarbrough’s 2-and-2 changeup 440 feet halfway up the grassy knoll to the right of the Angel Stadium rockpile.

Yarbrough shrugged off the setback, not allowing another hit until Jo Adell’s one-out infield hit in the fifth (which easily could have been scored an error on first baseman Ben Rice, who failed to catch second baseman Jorbit Vivas’ throw). “He’s unflappable,” Boone said of Yarbrough.

Kochanowicz was at 28 pitches through three innings but needed 32 pitches to get through the fourth as the Yankees sent nine to the plate.

Rice roped a single to center and Trent Grisham singled hard to right. Aaron Judge (1-for-2 with two walks) then hit a ground shot down the third-base line that Yoan Moncada stopped, but he couldn’t make a throw and the infield single loaded the bases.

Bellinger worked a four-pitch walk, tying it at 1-1, and after Jasson Dominguez struck out, Volpe smoked a 0-and-2 97-mph fastball over the head of centerfielder Chris Taylor for his 16th double of the season. That gave the Yankees a 4-1 lead and made Angel Stadium sound like Yankee Stadium West.

“Really a good inning that the boys were able to put together,” Boone said. “[We] rode the big inning tonight and, obviously, what Yarbs was able to do.”

Before Monday’s game, Boone said DH Giancarlo Stanton (tendon tears in both elbows) arrived earlier in the day at the club’s minor-league complex in Tampa and will get “live at-bats” through the weekend. “Then we’ll see what we’re going to do next week, if it’s more of that or a rehab assignment,” Boone said . . . With 16 doubles, Volpe is tied with Pete Alonso and Manny Machado for fourth in the majors.