NEW YORK — Jo Adell hit a bases-clearing double with two outs in a six-run fifth inning, Tyler Anderson retired Aaron Judge three times in six strong innings pitched and the Los Angeles Angels withstood rainy conditions for a 9-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.
With the rain varying in intensity, Anderson (9-10) allowed one run and three hits for his first win since July 6. The veteran left-hander struck out Judge swinging in the first, got a called third strike on the slugger in the third and retired him on a groundout in the sixth.
''He doesn't throw with velocity but he reads bats well and he was able to get into an area where Judge couldn't get to it,'' Angels manager Ron Washington said.
''Obviously he's a great hitter,'' Anderson said. ''You don't want to make a lot of mistakes to him, so just try to make good pitches, execute pitches and it worked out tonight."
Nolan Schanuel hit a leadoff homer and had an RBI single off Nestor Cortes (5-10) before the Angels put together a six-run inning for the second straight game.
Kevin Pillar hit a two-strike, two-run single before an Anthony Rendon walk and Adell's bases-clearing double. Mickey Moniak capped the inning with an RBI single as the Angels outscored the Yankees 17-6 and totaled 27 hits in the last two games of the series. Zach Neto followed up his six-RBI showing on Wednesday with a late run-scoring single.
The Angels won a series in the Bronx for the first time since 2017 and had consecutive games with six-run innings for the first time since Sept. 27-28, 2016.
''They just went out and played," Washington said of his young players. ''I wish the weather would have been nicer so they could have really found out what Yankee Stadium is like, but the conditions we couldn't do anything about. I'm so proud of the way they handled themselves.''