Los Angeles Angels at New York Yankees: Final Score & Recap

The Los Angeles Angels handed the New York Yankees an 8-2 defeat at Yankee Stadium on August 6, 2024, erasing what the DiamondIQ model had estimated as a 68 percent pre-game home win probability for New York down to zero by the final out. The game turned almost entirely on a stunning six-run Angels second inning against starter Will Warren, a burst that effectively decided the contest before the Yankees had managed much of anything offensively.

The second inning was the decisive sequence by every measurable angle. Logan O'Hoppe's strikeout — recorded as a positive win-probability event under DiamondIQ's model — added 15.0 percent to the Angels' win probability within that frame, the second-largest single-play swing of the game, reflecting how the sequence of Angels plate appearances kept pressure mounting on Warren. Zach Neto followed with a home run that added another 10.9 percent, and Nolan Schanuel drew a walk that contributed 5.7 percent more. On the other side, Gleyber Torres's flyout in the bottom of the second registered as the single largest win-probability swing of the night at -15.8 percent, a sign of how completely the Yankees' window had closed by that point. Alex Verdugo's first-inning lineout off Angels reliever Carson Fulmer had similarly cost New York 5.1 percent before the game's decisive sequence even began.

Among individual performers, Carson Fulmer led all pitchers with a WPA of +22.1 percent, anchoring an Angels bullpen that held New York to two runs across the entire game. Offensively, O'Hoppe finished as the top Angels batter at +17.8 percent WPA, while Neto posted the most productive run-environment number among position players at +4.5 RE24 to go alongside his +14.0 percent WPA. The Angels totaled 13 hits while surrendering just nine, and the Yankees' zero errors offered no defensive excuse for a night that unraveled swiftly and completely in the second inning.