Angels Beat Pettitte and the Yankees ANAHEIM, Calif. - Andy Pettitte feels he has already answered, at least for himself, the question of whether he can still pitch in the major leagues, even at age 39 after a one-year retirement. For weeks, Pettitte toiled in minor league towns along the East Coast in his quest to return to the majors. Now that he is finally here and has made four starts, the issue is no longer whether he can do it. It's whether he can do it and win. Pettitte made his 400th start as a Yankee Tuesday, but came away with his 114th loss as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Yankees, 5-1. "That's a moot point for me now," Pettitte said about whether he is still capable of pitching at the highest level. Now it's all about helping the team win. I've got to keep them off the board and let our guys score first. That's what I always try to do and I hate that I wasn't able to do that tonight. He gave up five runs in seven innings, but for much of the game he looked like the Pettitte of old, getting ground ball after ground ball and working late into the game. At other times he looked like a rusty 39-year-old, making a couple of key mistakes, and so his record fell to 2-2. The resurgent Angels slugger Albert Pujols hit a towering home run in the third inning, his fifth home run in his last eight games after a surprisingly slow start. Mark Trumbo, who had the game-winning home run the night before, as well as a triple and a double, also homered in the sixth inning. But it was a frustrating night for the Yankees hitters, who left the bases loaded twice without getting any runs. Both times Robinson Cano struck out, including in the ninth inning as Ernesto Frieri fanned him on a 94-mile-per-hour fastball. The night was most aggravating for Nick Swisher, who hit the ball hard four times, but came away with very little to show for it. He did register a run-scoring single for the Yankees only run in the fourth. But Swisher was also the victim of three great catches by Angels outfielders, robbing him of extra bases all three both times. "What are you going to do, man?" he said. I felt like it was one of my better games. I felt like I really swung the bat well, but I had nothing to show for it. In the second inning, Swisher lifted a fly ball to deep left-center field with two outs. The ball had the potential to go over the wall, but Mike Trout, the speedy left fielder, sprinted over and jumped at the wall, grabbing the ball as it appeared ready to bounce off the top of it, or perhaps go over. Swisher stopped running between first and second base and wore a look of disbelief. When the centerfielder Peter Bourjos robbed him of a hit in the seventh, Swisher's expression turned to a smile. Leading off the inning, he drove a pitch into deep right center, but Bourjos made a sliding catch at the base of the wall. This time Swisher walked back into the dugout smiling and shaking his head. One inning later, with runners on first and third and two outs, he drove another ball toward the wall in right center. Burjos and right fielder Torii Hunter, who won nine Gold Glove awards at centerfield, converged. Bourjos ran this one down as well and Swisher reacted by doing a pirouette on the infield dirt. "They've got some track stars out there in center and left," Swisher said. Maybe I should start hitting it to right. But when one of your slower outfielders has 10 gold gloves, that's a pretty good outfield out there. If any of Swisher's balls had dropped it might have changed things for Pettitte, who was cruising early on without much trouble. But things changed drastically in the third. Mike Trout hit a rare triple to left field that scored one run, and one out later Pujols drove a high fastball well over the fence in left field. The ball cleared the Angels bullpen and landed in the Yankees pen above it, and the Angels had a 3-0 lead. Later, Pettitte hung a slider and Trumbo demolished it, sending the ball an estimated 440 feet to straightaway center field. "Just stupid pitches by me," he said. Pettitte lasted into the eighth inning, when he was removed after issuing a single to Pujols. Pujols would score on a single by Howie Kendrick off reliever Cody Eppley for the Angels" final run. "I thought he pitched better than five runs," Joe Girardi said of Pettitte. Things might have been different for Pettitte if the Yankees could have cashed in with the bases loaded. But Cano struck out in the third and the ninth, so the Yankees are now hitless in their last 15 at-bats with the bases loaded, and are just 8 for 53 on the season in those situations, for a .151 batting average. On Tuesday, they left 12 runners on base, and in the first two games here they have stranded 23 runners in all. "We weren't able to break through," Girardi said. Their defense kept us from scoring runs tonight.