ANAHEIM — This is what the Yankees are built for. They aren’t constructed to rely on bunting and going station to station. The Bombers were built to hit blasts and Tuesday night, Athony Rizzo, Andrew Benintendi and Aaron Judge each went deep to beat up on the Angels, 7-4, at Angels Stadium.
The Yankees (79-51) snapped a three-game losing streak and gave themselves a chance to salvage their final trip to the West Coast this season after splitting a four-game series with the lowly A’s. The Yankees are 10-17 in the month of August and 15-23 since the All-Star break. They held onto their seven-game lead over the Rays in the American League East. The Angels (56-72) lost for the first time in five games.
Judge homered for the second time in as many nights, giving him a major-league-leading 51 home runs. That is 10 shy of the Yankees’ franchise and American League record set by Roger Maris in 1961. Judge has 32 games left to play in the regular season.
