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As the Angels prepared to celebrate their fourth A.L. West crown in five seasons after their victory Wednesday, the Yankees trudged home for an awkward 10-game sendoff to proud old Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees’ season has become a theater of the hopeless. So it was in the sixth inning, when the fourth-place Yankees brawled with the Los Angeles Angels.

As he prepares for his start at the against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, Mike Mussina is 15-7 with a 3.27 earned run average.

The Yankees sent Ian Kennedy back to Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Sunday and told him not to worry about winning.

With the game tied at the brink of a three-game sweep by the team with the best record in baseball, the Yankees, could not pile on when they needed to.

The Yankees are stuck in third place in the American League East and the wild-card race, miles behind the Angels, who are charging toward their best season ever.

Ian Kennedy allowed nine hits and five runs, and the Yankees fell to 63-53, six and a half games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.

Mike Mussina retired 16 straight batters, gave up two hits and one earned run for his 14th victory of the season.

More than three months after he suffered a rare foot ailment, Brian Bruney was activated from the 60-day disabled list Friday.

After an eight-inning deadlock, a single by Vladimir Guerrero and a base hit by Torii Hunter scored Reggie Willits for the only run of the game.