ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Yankees can finally kiss their road trip from hell goodbye.
But not before one last brutal showing, including some self-inflicted harm.
The Angels rocked Carlos Rodon and the Yankees were equally helpless against a spot starter just called up from Triple-A, resulting in a 7-3 loss on Wednesday that finished off a sweep at Angel Stadium.
Rodon, in his third start as a Yankee, gave up five walks and a pair of two-run homers across 4 ¹/₃ ineffective innings.
His final line also included a kiss, which he blew to fans behind the Yankees’ dugout who appeared to be jeering at him after he walked off the mound following the second inning, already with a 4-0 deficit.
The left-hander, who signed a six-year, $162 million contract with the Yankees over the offseason, is now 0-3 with a 7.54 ERA through three starts.
He missed the first three months of the season with a forearm muscle strain and back tightness.
A pair of rough Rodon starts served as bookends for the Yankees’ 1-5 road trip against the Rockies and Angels to begin the second half of the season.
While getting swept by the Angels (49-48) for the first time since 2009, the Yankees (50-47) lost for the ninth time in their last 11 games and bolstered their position in last place of the AL East.
While Rodon got beat up and Yankees pitchers doled out 11 walks, the offense continued to look lifeless. They struck out 16 times — making it a whopping 42 for the series — including 10 in 5 ²/₃ innings against right-hander Chase Silseth, who recorded a career-high in punch-outs after he was recalled from Triple-A for the spot start.
To add injury to insult, Harrison Bader left the game in the sixth inning with a left posterior rib contusion after he was drilled by a 95 mph sinker from Angels reliever Jose Soriano.
Bader remained in the game to run the bases before Isiah Kiner-Falefa replaced him in center field in the bottom of the inning.
Rodon’s troubles began in the first inning, when he walked Shohei Ohtani, then hung a curveball that Taylor Ward smacked for a two-run home run.
In the second inning, Rodon walked leadoff man Hunter Renfroe before Luis Rengifo jumped on a 96 mph fastball and crushed it 418 feet for another two-run homer that made it 4-0 Angels.
Returning to the mound after his kiss to the crowd, Rodon issued two more walks to begin the third inning.
Both runners eventually came around to score. Mickey Moniak drove in one on an RBI single and Eduardo Escobar knocked in the other on a fielder’s choice that pushed the Angels’ lead to 6-0.
Rodon later heard some boos from the Yankees fans in attendance as he walked off the mound after 87 pitches, which got him through one out in the fifth inning.
The Yankees did not get on the scoreboard against Silseth until the sixth inning, which Giancarlo Stanton led off with a home run.
Kyle Higashioka added an RBI single later in the inning against Soriano to pull the Yankees within 6-2.
They loaded the bases with two outs, but Oswald Peraza struck out looking on a borderline pitch.
Franchy Cordero, who was thrown out at third base on a ground ball to shortstop earlier in the game, drilled a solo homer in the eighth inning.