Giancarlo Stanton hit a game-tying fly ball deep to left that would have landed in the seats a week ago.
But, in yet another reminder that their 13-game winning streak is over, the ball only made it to the warning track for a sacrifice fly, leaving the Yankees down by two runs in their fourth straight loss to the Angels, 6-4.
With Tuesday night’s loss, the Yankees fell eight games behind Tampa Bay, the most they’ve been since July 29 when they were 812 games behind.
“Losing four in a row is very frustrating,’’ Brett Gardner said of losing four straight by a total of six runs. “Just unacceptable. We’ve been playing good baseball for a while now… We’ve been in games and had an opportunity to change the outcome. We just haven’t been able to.”
“We’ve had to bounce back from a lot this year,’’ Jameson Taillon said. “It’s a lot more fun winning than losing.”
After Stanton’s fly ball in the eighth inning, the Yankees still had a chance, as Joey Gallo walked before Gio Urshela faced Jake Petricka.
Giancarlo Stanton hit a game-tying fly ball deep to left that would have landed in the seats a week ago.
But, in yet another reminder that their 13-game winning streak is over, the ball only made it to the warning track for a sacrifice fly, leaving the Yankees down by two runs in their fourth straight loss to the Angels, 6-4.
With Tuesday night’s loss, the Yankees fell eight games behind Tampa Bay, the most they’ve been since July 29 when they were 812 games behind.
After Stanton’s fly ball in the eighth inning, the Yankees still had a chance, as Joey Gallo walked before Gio Urshela faced Jake Petricka.
“We’ve lost some razor-thin games,’’ Aaron Boone said. “The story was we hit five double plays that really hurt us. I felt like, man, we should have broken that [game] open. We couldn’t get that big hit.”
To add insult to injury, Shohei Ohtani stole home on a delayed double steal to give the Angels an insurance run. Ohtani didn’t pitch Tuesday because he was hit by a pitch in his right hand on Saturday.
Taillon, like Corey Kluber on Monday, went three innings without allowing a hit before crumbling in the fourth.
In his last two starts, Taillon has allowed six runs in 4 2/3 innings and 11 earned runs in 8 1/3 innings. The right-ERA hander’s has risen from 3.82 to 4.44 in his last four starts.
In the top of the first, the Yankees squandered a scoring opportunity.
Because he was running on the 3-2 pitch, DJ LeMahieu led off with a single and advanced to second on Anthony Rizzo’s groundout. After a walk from Aaron Judge, Stanton grounded into a double play to end the threat.
With a leadoff homer in the fourth inning, Rizzo gave the Yankees the lead.
Before David Fletcher led off the bottom of the fourth with a flare single to shallow right, Taillon retired the first nine batters he faced, striking out four in a row at one point.
Gosselin popped up a bunt before Ohtani walked.
On consecutive nights, the Angels scored three runs in the fourth inning, thanks to Jared Walsh’s three-run homer.
