Yankees Match Angels in Home Run Battle, but Fall Short on Runs The Angels got the home run derby started early with a pair in the first inning. Albert Pujols was greeted after hitting his 15th homer of the season. The baseball was jumping on a sticky afternoon at Yankee Stadium, and it was not the Yankees, the majors top home run hitting team, who were capitalizing the most. The Los Angeles Angels hit three home runs against Yankees" starter Ivan Nova - including deep shots from infielders Erick Aybar and Maicer Izturis, who had three homers combined coming into the game - and four times over all in a 10-8 win Sunday. Never easily outdone, the Yankees hit four homers of their own, three against Angels" ace Jered Weaver, and put together a dramatic ninth-inning rally. They scored three runs and brought Alex Rodriguez to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs. But reliever Kevin Jepsen induced Rodriguez to pop out to end the game. Earlier, Nova struggled, and the bullpen could not limit the damage against the Angels, who scored off home runs, sacrifice flies, groundouts and a squeeze bunt - the type of multifaceted offensive game that makes them so dangerous. In the first, Aybar and Albert Pujols went back-to-back with solo home runs, both off-speed pitches that Nova left hanging over the heart of the plate. He struck out the next two batters to end the inning and screamed into his glove as he walked off the mound. Nova was quickly soothed when Rodriguez hit a two-run homer to left field in the bottom of the inning to tie the score. It was the second game in a row the Yankees surrendered two runs in the first and then came back to tie the score in the bottom of the inning. For Rodriguez, the drive snapped a 49-at-bat homerless streak. It was his 14th home run of the season. The Yankees took the lead in the second on a run-scoring single by Derek Jeter. But they continually squandered opportunities to add to it. Twice in the first five innings the Yankees grounded into double plays. And in the third, with one out and Rodriguez on first, Cano singled but got caught in a rundown between first and second base. Rodriguez, trying to sneak home, was then tagged out by catcher Bobby Wilson to end the inning - a 1-3-6-2 double play that will not be on the team's year-end base-running highlight reel. The Angels tied the game on a sacrifice fly by Alberto Callaspo in the sixth on a ball that center fielder Curtis Granderson dove to catch. But the next batter, Izturis, hit a two-run homer - his first of the season - to right field. The Angels added to their lead with runs in the seventh and eighth, and Mark Trumbo hit his 24th homer of the year in the ninth. The Angels finished with 15 hits. The Yankees hit Weaver hard, no small feat. He had thrown 202/3 consecutive scoreless innings entering Sunday's game. Opponents were hitting .202 against him, the fourth-lowest mark in baseball. He had allowed only five home runs all season. But he gave up three homers, five runs and 10 hits total in seven innings Sunday. The Yankees rallied in the ninth. Mark Teixeira hit a two-run homer off the flame-throwing closer Ernesto Frieri. After a walk to Nick Swisher, Scott Downs replace Frieri and t Yankees loaded the bases with two outs, before, the Angels third pitcher of the inning, got Rodriguez to snuff out the Yankees" rally. The Yankees" newest first-round pick, Ty Hensley, shagged flyballs and toured the clubhouse before Sunday's game. Hensley agreed to a deal with the team on Friday. "There's so much history here," Hensley said. That factored into the decision. Just the fact that it's the Yankees really helped. Hensley said he would join the Gulf Coast League Yankees in Tampa, Fla., on Monday. ...Outfielder Brett Gardner (elbow) played three innings in a simulated game in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday... Reliever Joba Chamberlain (elbow and ankle) threw two scoreless innings for the Gulf Coast League Yankees in his second rehabilitation appearance on Saturday.