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Yankees score seven runs, end six-game losing streak

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Finally, some offense.

Not an eruption by any stretch but good enough.

And the Yankees will certainly take that considering what preceded it.

Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt hit back-to-back homers in a three-run second inning and the bullpen tossed three innings of one-hit ball to help the Yankees snap their season-high six-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the Angels on a muggy, 89-degree Thursday afternoon at the Stadium.

“Definitely feels good hearing the music again,” Cody Bellinger (three hits) said of the tunes that play in the clubhouse after any Yankees' victory. “Obviously, we were very frustrated with the past few games. Ultimately, we broke through in a pretty good way today.”

The Yankees (43-31), who totaled seven runs in their previous seven games, had their largest run output since a 10-2 victory at Kansas City on June 10.

After Carlos Rodon (9-5) allowed three runs — on three solo homers — and four hits in six innings, Mark Leiter Jr. pitched a scoreless seventh.

Jonathan Loaisiga, who threw a scoreless eighth, had a two-run lead to work with, courtesy of Bellinger’s RBI single in the seventh that made it 5-3.

Anthony Volpe’s bases-loaded groundout and Austin Wells’ sacrifice fly in the eighth made it 7-3. Devin Williams struck out three in a scoreless ninth in a non-save situation.

“I thought [the offense] swung it great," Rodon said. "I thought we played some good baseball, and big props to the bullpen for shutting it down when we got up."

The Yankees, who had 12 hits, played far from a perfect game, committing yet another blunder on the bases. This time it was Wells running his team out of the sixth inning.

With the catcher on first and Volpe on second, DJ LeMahieu awaited a 3-and-2 pitch from Angels lefthander Tyler Anderson. But before the pitch was thrown, Wells took off early for second and Volpe, who was forced to make his way toward third, was tagged out in a 1-3-5-6 rundown.

“You can’t get picked off there,” Aaron Boone said.

Still, a win’s a win, and the Yankees were more than glad to get it. Especially with how the game started.

After retiring the first two batters on a deep fly ball to left-center and a groundout to first, Rodon left a fastball over the plate that Mike Trout hammered 423 feet into the Angels' bullpen in left-center for his 12th homer.

The Yankees, however, responded quickly.

Goldschmidt, in a 9-for-57 skid entering the day and hitless in his previous 10 at-bats, rocketed a leadoff double down the leftfield line. Bellinger followed with an infield single as Goldschmidt advanced to third.

After Aaron Judge struck out, Giancarlo Stanton hit a grounder back up the middle. Second baseman Christian Moore — ranging to his right behind the bag — fielded the ball and flipped to shortstop Zach Neto for the lead out, but Stanton beat the relay throw to first, allowing Goldschmidt to score.

The Angels (36-38) went back in front with one out in the second as Jo Adell hit his 15th homer. After Rodon got Kevin Newman to fly to right for the third out, crew chief Bill Miller called for the tarp. But only some three minutes after the field was covered, the grounds crew was taking the tarp off, making for one of the shortest rain delays (eight minutes total) in recent memory.

The Yankees again responded in the bottom half when LeMahieu singled with two outs and Grisham, batting ninth, hammered a first-pitch fastball 408 feet to right to give the Yankees a 3-2. It was Grisham's 14th homer but only his first since May 30 at Dodger Stadium. Goldschmidt followed by drilling a fastball to left for his eighth homer that made it 4-2.

“It’s a long season when you’re playing well, it’s a long season when you’re losing a few games in a row,” Goldschmidt said. “We understand that. We’ve done a good job just taking it day-by-day and today was a good example of that. We’ll do that the whole year and see what happens.”

Taylor Ward took Rodon deep in the sixth to make it 4-3 before the Yankees added those insurance runs in the seventh and eighth.

Said Boone: “Definitely good to salvage one and shake hands at the end.”

Erik Boland

Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.

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