Angels hit 5 solo homers against Yankees on way to 7-1 victory

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NEW YORK — It was the worst of times, and then it was the best of times for Ryan Weathers, who logged a bizarre start in the Yankees’ 7-1 loss to the Angels on Tuesday night.

The southpaw set two season highs for the pinstripers’ pitching staff, surrendering four home runs but also striking out 10 hitters over five innings. Weathers, fresh off an eight-inning, one-run outing against the Athletics, also totaled five hits, five earned runs, two walks and 94 pitches as his ERA increased to 4.29.

Most of Weathers’ mistakes came in the first inning, as Mike Trout, Jo Adell and Jorge Soler crushed back-to-back-to-back solo home runs with one out on the board. Each dinger came off Weathers’ four-seam fastball, which was down a few ticks on Tuesday.

Weathers bounced back from that futile first frame with two scoreless innings, but Yankees castoff Oswald Peraza, who entered the games with a .552 career OPS, added another solo homer in the fourth inning.

Weathers was charged an additional run after issuing a leadoff walk in the sixth and getting pulled from the game. Paul Blackburn went on to allow a two-run single to Yoán Moncada, who also ripped a solo shot off the recently-promoted Yerry De los Santos in the eighth inning.

When Yankees pitchers weren’t serving up home runs, Weathers did have the Halos swinging and missing. While his four-seamer yielded only one whiff, he got four from his change-up and five from his slider.

Still, Weathers became the first Yankees pitcher to ever give up at least four homers while striking out at least 10 batters in a game. The Yankees, meanwhile, allowed five solo homers on Tuesday after allowing just five jacks in their first 16 games of the season.

On the flip side, Los Angeles’ Reid Detmers nearly matched Weathers in the strikeout department, and he did so while permitting just one run. With nine punchouts, four hits and zero walks over seven innings, the lefty stifled an offense that broke out for 11 runs in Monday’s series-opener but has otherwise been a bit quiet lately.

With the Yankees not scoring until Ben Rice lofted a pinch-hit sac fly in the eighth, Weathers became the only pitcher this season with four starts and zero runs of support, per Stathead’s Katie Sharp.