ANAHEIM, Calif. “What a puff it was.

Literally.

And figuratively.

Another day, another tough extra-inning loss for the Yankees.

In a new city and time zone, the Yankees lost another late two-run lead and lost 4-3 to the Angels in 10 innings.

Michael Stefanic’s two-out single against Nick Ramirez in the 10th scored ghost runner Chad Wallach from second base and the Angels prevailed in Game 1 of a three-game series.

Sunday in Denver, the Yankees blew a two-run lead in the seventh and 11th innings by losing 8-7 to the Rockies in 11.

Ramirez pitched the last two innings because the Yankees were shorthanded in the bullpen. Tommy Kahnle, Wandy Peralta and Ian Hamilton were unavailable and Clay Holmes would have worked just a third day in a row in a backup situation.

The loss left the Yankees alone in last place in the AL East, a first for this end of the season since 1990.

In the Yankees’ 10th, Anthony Rizzo started with a groundout at first that advanced ghost runner Gleyber Torres to third base, but Harrison Bader and Anthony Volpe retired.

The Yankees struck 17 times on the night.

“I think we did a lot of good things tonight, but in some situations we have to be able to make a better adjustment,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We have to do better than that overall.”

With the game tied at 3-3, the Yanks missed a chance to take the lead in the ninth after going two out without anyone.

DJ LeMahieu started with a right single and advanced to second on a Hunter Renfroe field error, then Oswald Peraza walked for the fourth time, putting the runners up first and second.

Angels left-handed reliever Matt Moore escaped the jam when Giancarlo Stanton was called out on a long flyball to center and Torres dug in on a 5-4-3 double play.

The Yankees were leading 3-1 until the Angels’ one-man gang, Shohei Ohtani, hit again with a game-tying two-run homer against reliever Michael King.

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With two downs and a runner first, King tackled Ohtani, who threw a 0-2 97mph fastball that was over the plate over the center field wall for homer No. 35, most in the majors.

King came on in the seventh to replace Yankees starter Luis Severino, who had a big rebound, one for six.

“Sevy played well, the offense gave us a lead and I didn’t make it,” King said. “So it’s on me today. Obviously it’s been on other guys in the past. We just haven’t really implemented it.

The Yankees are 5-9 in their last 14 games, including 1-3 since the All-Star break, leaving them nine games behind the first-place Rays in the AL East and 2 1/2 games out. a joker position. .

Possibly pitching with his rotation spot on the line, Severino blanked the Angels until Matt Thaiss homered with two out in the sixth, snapping a 2-0 lead for the Yankees.

Severino scattered six hits, struck out three and walked three on his 98-pitch start, lowering his ERA from 7.38 to 6.66.

“All my throws were good,” Severino said. The drive and speed were really good. I had a good mix of pitch.

King had a tough outing striking out two of the seven batters he faced in the seventh. After Ohtani tied the game with his home run, King charged the bases by successively walking Mickey Moniak and Taylor Ward, then hitting Mike Moustakas.

From there, Ron Marinaccio replaced King and came out of the inning by retiring Thaiss to a grounder at first that kept the game 3-3.

The Yankees were kept under control by Angels starter Griffin Channing until they scored the first two points of the game in the sixth.

After a career-high 12 strikeouts and 120 shots, Channing was retired in the sixth after walking Isiah Kiner-Falefa to load the bases with two outs. With Jimmy Herbet, Oswaldo Cabrera chained a two-point double on the left.

The Yankees again earned two runs in the seventh when Oswald Peraza walked, stole second, advanced to third on crazy ground and scored on Torres’ flyball deep center to make it 3-1.

Once again though, the Yankees blew the lead and the game.

“We fought all night and lost,” Severino said. “Hopefully we can come back and not worry about what happened tonight and the last two days and just worry about what we can improve.”

NOTABLE

– A day after his call from Triple-A, Peraza started at third base and was 1 for 1 with four walks, one stolen base and one run scored out of first place. He also made a base run error by being pulled out of first base after walking in the first inning.

– Stanton was 0-for-5 with three strikeouts.

–The Yankees signed first-round draft pick George Lombard Jr., giving Miami prep shortstop a $3.3 million bonus over the $3.065 million pick value.

– Third-rounder Kyle Carr, a junior college southpaw, also signed. (The Yanks lost their second-round pick for signing free agent Carlos Rodon).

LOOK AHEAD

Tuesday: Yankees at Angels, 9:38 p.m. EST, YES. RHP Domingo German (5-5, 4.32) against LHP Patrick Sandoval (4-7, 4.41).

Wednesday: Yankees at Angels, 7:07 p.m. EST, YES. LHP Carlos Rodon (0-2, 5.23) against TBA.

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Randy Miller can be reached at rmiller@njadvancemedia.com.