Yankees use balanced effort to topple Angels win another series

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ANAHEIM, Calif.  Even on a day when their rotation took a hit, the Yankees continued to roll.  Hours after that could sideline him for around two months, Carlos Rodon just kept chugging along, pitching six strong innings and receiving plenty of late run support on the way to an on Thursday night at Angel Stadium.  Rodon allowed a solo home run in the second inning but didnt flinch, going on to retire 14 straight batters after that before running into some trouble in the seventh. He was eventually charged with three earned runs  becoming the first Yankees starter to allow more than two since May 11, snapping a record-breaking streak of 16 straight games pitching at least five innings and giving up two or fewer runs  but it hardly mattered.  Aaron Judge belts a two-run homer in the fourth inning of the Yankees 8-3 win over the Angels.  AP  Sign me up for six-plus innings and three runs that Carlos got us tonight, manager Aaron Boone said. Start another [streak] hopefully tomorrow.  In the early innings, Boone felt the Yankees (39-19) needed a shot of energy, but Aaron Judge delivered it in the form of a two-run home run in the fourth that gave them a 2-1 lead.  Explore More  The 433-foot blast  tying him for the major league lead with 18 home runs  gave him 12 home runs and 12 doubles in May, joining only Lou Gehrig as the Yankees to accomplish that feat in a single month.  Good month, lets try to repeat it next month, said Judge, who agreed that the Yankees were flat in every game this series but did something to change it.  Hes pretty good, wouldnt you say? Rodon said. Thats why hes the Michael Carter-Williams Jersey  captain.  Winning the rubber game with the Angels (21-35), the Yankees clinched the series victory  doing so for the 14th time in their first 18 series of the season for only the seventh time in franchise history.  Carlos Rodon, who allowed three runs, picked up his seventh win of the season in the Yankees win.  Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports  After improving to 4-2 on their 10-day, nine-game west coast swing, the Yankees flew to San Francisco, where they will finish off their longest trip of the season this weekend.  Besides the starters streak, Anthony Volpes career-high 21-game hitting streak also came to an end on Thursday night.  But instead of chasing a hit with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, he worked the Yankees third straight walk, forcing in a run to make it a 4-1 lead.  Juan Soto came up next and delivered the knockout punch off lefty reliever Jose Suarez, chopping a triple down the right-field line that cleared the bases and pushed the Yankees ahead 7-1.  Juan Soto rips a three-run triple in the seventh inning of the Yankees win over the Angels.  Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports  Rodon, returning to the place where he had one of his low moments last year by blowing a ki s to a heckling fan behind the dugout after a rough start, continued his bounce-back season.  He pitched into the seventh inning for the fourth time in his last five starts, a stretch in which he has posted a 2.37 ERA.  Acro s 12 starts this season, the left-hander now owns a 3.09 ERA.  After giving up a solo home run to Long Islands Logan OHoppe in the second inning, Rodon locked in and carried a one-hitter into the seventh inning.  Anthony Volpe, whose 21-game hitting streak came to an end, scores a run on Juan Sotos three-run triple in the seventh inning of the Yankees win.  Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports  He didnt flinch, Boone said. OHoppe put a charge into it and he kind of looked at it like, Oh well. Moved right on. Right away, I felt like right after that, he started making more pitches. Hes doing a really good job with that, of just, Game plan, next pitch, next pitch, focus on handling his busine s and not getting too caught up in the result of one pitch. Just a strong outing by him and hes doing well.  Though the Yankees will now be without Schmidt for a while, Judge said he was confident they would find a way to keep winning.  [The rotation is] the best in the game right now, Judge said. The news about Clarke definitely hurts, but I know guys will definitely pick up the slack and keep it rolling.  Marial Shayok Jersey