Yankees bats snap six-game skid in rainy, sweltering Bronx

At long last — the first time in a week — the Yankees have won a game.

It was not the prettiest way to get off the schneid, but off the schneid they finally are.

Back-to-back home runs from a pair of slumping hitters, Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt, gave the Yankees a lead in the second inning and they were able to make it stand to snap a six-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over the Angels on a sweltering Thursday afternoon in The Bronx.

Carlos Rodón gave up a season-high three home runs but they were all of the solo variety, allowing the Yankees (43-31) to avoid a four-game sweep at the hands of the Angels (36-38).

As they have too often over the past week, the Yankees made another baserunning blunder that ended a rally too early in what was then a 4-3 game.

This time it was Austin Wells taking off from first base too early before a full-count, two-out pitch to DJ LeMahieu in the sixth inning, with lefty Tyler Anderson throwing over and eventually picking off Anthony Volpe in between second and third.

But an inning later, Cody Bellinger capped off a three-hit day with an RBI single to right field that scored Grisham, who had doubled, for a key insurance run. (Though the inning ended on the play as Bellinger was thrown out at second trying to advance on the throw home).

Then, after the second rain delay of the game (this one 35 minutes), the Yankees padded their lead with a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth.

Aaron Judge started the rally with a double, his first extra-base hit since homering off Garrett Crochet last Friday. He went 1-for-3 with a walk, improving to 4-for-31 over his last nine games.

In relief of Rodón, Mark Leiter Jr., Jonathan Loáisiga and Devin Williams made sure the lead held to secure the Yankees’ first win since beating the Royals 1-0 last Thursday.

Mike Trout took Rodón deep with two outs in the top of the first, but the Yankees quickly tied it up in the bottom of the inning. Goldschmidt led off with a double down the line before Bellinger reached on an infield single.

After Judge struck out, Giancarlo Stanton picked him up by hitting into a fielder’s choice that scored Goldschmidt from third.

Jo Adell then homered off Rodón in the top of the second, but again the Yankees had an immediate answer.

This one came in the form of a two-out, two-run home run from Grisham, his first since May 30, to take a 3-2 lead.

Two pitches later, Goldschmidt made it back-to-back jacks.

Grisham, batting ninth for the first time since April, came into the day batting .180 with a .551 OPS and one home run over his last 28 games. He had homered 12 times in his first 35 games before cooling off, but looked more like late-April/early-May Grisham on Thursday.

Goldschmidt, meanwhile, entered the day batting .150 with a .432 OPS and one home run over his last 17 games. But the lefty masher took advantage of Anderson, clubbing his fifth homer of the year off a southpaw (out of eight overall).