Ohtani steals home, Angels send Yankees to 4th straight loss

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Manager Aaron Boone had no real problem with the way his New York Yankees executed on the double steal by the Angels that ended with Shohei Ohtani sliding safely into home.

In fact, Boone and the Yankees still seem confident in just about everything they're doing despite a losing streak that's threatening to end their AL East hopes before September even gets rolling.

Ohtani stole home, Jared Walsh hit a three-run homer and the Los Angeles Angels hung on late to send the Yankees to their fourth straight loss, 6-4 Tuesday night.

Anthony Rizzo and Gary Sánchez homered for the Yankees, whose skid following their 13-game winning streak continued despite 10 hits at Angel Stadium. The Yankees couldn't catch up after the Angels went ahead 6-2 by executing their second double steal of the night involving Ohtani, who slid home after Phil Gosselin stole second.

“I was fine with (Sánchez) throwing,” Boone said. “If we play really good catch in that situation, it’s probably boom-boom.”

Aaron Judge had an RBI single and Giancarlo Stanton added a sacrifice fly in the eighth, but New York (76-56) dropped eight games behind Tampa Bay (84-48) in the AL East standings. New York’s four losses have been by a combined six runs, suggesting the Yankees aren’t too far off their previous form — but that’s little comfort with the Rays pulling away.

“Losing four in a row is obviously very frustrating, and just unacceptable,” Brett Gardner said. “We’ve obviously been playing very good baseball for a while now. We’ve been in the games and had opportunities to change the outcome, and just haven’t been able to. Even though we’ve lost four in a row, we’ve won 13 of 17. That’s how I choose to look at it.”

New York also hit into five double plays, the most turned by the Angels...

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