What do you know? Shohei Ohtani is human, after all. His first start against the Yankees was over in a hurry. Well, not really. The Babe Ruth of his time was out there throwing 41 pitches before he was knocked out during the Yankees’ seven-run first inning Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
By night’s end, his worst outing ever wasn’t the worst during a long night of baseball at Yankee Stadium that ended well into Thursday.
Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman walking three batters and then allowing a game-tying grand slam in the ninth trumped Ohtani because the Los Angeles Angels kept scoring and scoring in the ninth until they were up three runs.
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The end result was a stunning 11-8 Angels win that was another punch in the face to the reeling Yankees, who lost for the fifth time in six games to fall to 41-39 after 80 games.
“Terrible loss,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after watching the Angels’ turn the game with a seven-run ninth.
After two rain delays, Brett Gardner’s solo homer in the eighth put the Yankees up 8-4, but the Angels took advantage of the slumping Chapman having another terrible night.
Chapman walked three of the first four batters he faced to bring the tying run to the plate with one out, then Jared Walsh hit a game-tying grand slam in a lefty-on-lefty at-bat.
From there, Lucas Luetge came in and poured gasoline on the fire allowing three more runs, two coming on a hit two-out single by Luis Rengifo that put the Angels on top 10-8.
The Angels added one more run before finishing off the Yankees in the bottom of the night at 1:05 a.m.
The game was stopped for 42 minutes with the Yankees batting in the third inning, then again for 91 minutes after the Angels were retired in the fifth to make it an official game.
Ohtani was the Angels’ leadoff hitter and starting pitcher in this one after he hit his 26th, 27th and 28th homers of the season in the first two games of the series.
In this one, the Japanese superstar led off the game by flying out to center field facing Yankees starter Domingo German, then he took the mound with a 2-0 lead courtesy of a Phil Gosselin home run.
Pitching on a muggy 92-degree night, Ohtani had major control problems right away.
Leadoff hitter DJ LeMahieu walked on six pitches, Luke Voit walked on five pitches, Gary Sanchez worked an eight-pitch walk and suddenly the Yankees had the bases loaded with nobody out.
From there, Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres laced RBI singles to left to tie the game before Rougned Odor struck out for the first out. Miguel Andujar’s groundout to short made it 3-2 Yankees, then Clint Frazier was hit by a pitch and Brett Gardner walked to reload the bases.
At that point, Ohtani got the hook with his pitch count at 41, then he was charged with three more runs when LeMahieu greeted 6-foot-8 reliever Aaron Siegers with a perfectly-placed grounder past first that turned into a bases-clearing double to right.
The seven runs over two-thirds of an inning shot Ohtani’s ERA from 2.58 to 3.60.
The Yankees didn’t exactly cruise to the finish line due in part to German struggling for a fourth start in a row. He allowed three runs, two earned, over three innings and it could have been more damage because the Angels stranded two runners in scoring position in the second and left the bases loaded in the third.
The Yankees bullpen was stellar until the ninth, as four relievers combined for five scoreless through the eighth, two coming from Jonathan Loaisiga.
NOTABLE
-- Batting ninth and playing center, Gardner ended an 0-for-18 slump going 2-for-2 with two walks, a single and solo homer.
-- Reliever Justin Wilson was activated from the injured list and worked a 1-2-3 fourth inning with a strikeout.
-- Reliever Darren O’Day pitched a perfect sixth with a K in his first outing since returning from the IL on Wednesday.
-- Yankees right fielder Clint Frazier left the game in after two innings due to dizziness. He underwent some testing during the game and will have more on Thursday. “We’ll have more evaluation and see where we’re at with it,” Boone said.
-- Outfielder Aaron Judge and third baseman Gio Urshela were rested with the Yankees nine games into playing 13 days in a row.
LOOKING AHEAD
Thursday: Angels at Yankees, 1:05 p.m., YES. RHP Griffin Canning (5-4, 4.95) vs. LHP Jordan Montgomery (3-2, 4.06).
Friday: Mets at Yankees, 7:05 p.m., WPIX, SNY & MLB Network (out of market). RHP Taijuan Walker (6-3, 2.38) vs. Gerrit Cole (8-4, 2.66).
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