Ryan Weathers gives up four solo home runs, Yankees offense struggles in 7-1 loss to Angels

The Yankees gave up five solo home runs and couldn’t generate any offense of their own on Tuesday night, falling to the Los Angeles Angels, 7-1.

Here are the takeaways…

— Coming off of an impressive eight scoreless innings in his last outing, Ryan Weathers had a tough first inning on Tuesday night. The left-hander gave up back-to-back-to-back home runs to Mike Trout, Jo Adell, and Jorge Soler as the Angels took a 3-0 lead.

Weathers bounced back in the second inning, including winning a 12-pitch battle against Trout with a strikeout to end the frame. He kept it going with a 1-2-3 third inning, adding two more strikeouts to his total.

— Weathers’ struggles continued in the fourth, giving up a solo home run to former Yankees top prospect Oswald Peraza, making it a 4-0 game. He settled down in the fifth with another 1-2-3 inning, including a second strikeout against Trout in an eight-pitch AB. Weathers came out for the sixth inning, but walked Soler and was pulled from the game.

His final line: five runs on five hits with 10 strikeouts and two walks over 5.0 IP (94 pitches, 61 strikes).

— The Yankees bats simply could not figure out Angels starter Reid Detmers on Tuesday night, managing just two hits against the lefty through seven innings. Detmers finished after seven-plus innings with nine strikeouts and zero walks, allowing just one run on four hits.

— Paul Blackburn came in for relief and let up a two-run single to Yoán Moncada, giving LA a 6-0 lead. Yerry De los Santos got through the seventh inning unscathed, but allowed a leadoff solo home run to Moncada in the eighth as the Angles pushed their lead to 7-0.

— Randal Grichuk recorded his first hit with the Yanks in the eighth inning, hitting a leadoff double against Detmers. Grichuk was 0-for-15 at the plate prior to the double. He ended up scoring on Ben Rice‘s sac-fly that cut the deficit to 7-1.

Aaron Judge got his first hit of the game in the ninth with a leadoff double, but was left stranded to end the game. He finished 1-for-4 at the plate with two strikeouts and is now hitting .234 on the year.

GAME MVP: Reid Detmers

Detmers was dominant on Tuesday night, shutting down the Yanks offense after they scored 11 runs in Monday’s win.

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