Yoshinobu Yamamoto saw his start pushed back for an extra day rest, and had a rare clunker of a start in the Dodgers’ 7-4 loss to the Angels on Monday night at Angel Stadium in Anaheim.

The All-Star right-hander allowed six runs in 4 2/3 innings, the most runs Yamamoto has allowed in his 41 major league starts.

With a few Thursday off days and the Dodgers currently running a six-man rotation, everyone is basically on a once-a-week schedule for a few times through. But Yamamoto, the only remaining member of the opening day rotation to avoid the injured list, whose 23 starts and now 126 2/3 innings lead the team, was bumped from a Sunday start in Los Angeles to instead go on Monday in Anaheim.

Manager Dave Roberts was asked Sunday if bumping Yamamoto was because of something he was dealing with or just getting some extra rest, and said, “Maybe a little bit of both.”

It’s been a fairly consistent schedule this season for Yamamoto, with 14 of his previous 15 starts before Monday coming on exactly five days rest, save for getting eight days between starts surrounding the All-Star break.

Zach Neto greeted Yamamoto by hitting his first pitch over the wall in right center field, then two more walks and a single brought home a second Angels run in the opening frame. Yamamoto settled down before running out of gas in the fifth, starting his final inning by allowing three singles and a hit batter to the first four batters. All four would score.

Yamamoto’s five walks also tied his major league worst, also done this June 13 against San Francisco.

The six runs off Yamamoto snapped an incredible stretch for Dodgers starters, with two or fewer runs allowed in each of their previous seven starts and 10 straight starts allowing no more than three runs.

For a while it looked like Angels didn’t really need all those runs anyway, because José Soriano held the Dodgers at bay for his entire outing. One day after compiling 10 hits and 13 walks in a frustrating home loss, the Dodgers only managed two singles and two walks in six innings against Soriano, and didn’t have a runner in scoring position until the seventh inning, after Soriano’s night was finished.

Shohei Ohtani prevented a shutout loss with a solo home run in the eighth inning, his third consecutive game with a home run. His 42nd home run of the season was Ohtani’s 100th career home run at Angel Stadium.

Singles by Mookie Betts and Will Smith later in the inning preceded a three-run home run by Max Muncy to pull the Dodgers within three. Ohtani and Muncy carried over their red-hot bats from last week into this week.

No such rally was in the offing in the ninth inning, as old friend Kenley Jansen mowed down the bottom of the order for his 469th career save. Jansen has not allowed a run since June.

The Dodgers have lost to the Angels five straight times dating back to last season, their longest losing streak to the Halos since also losing five straight in 2010. The longest Angels win streak against the Dodgers is six games, from June 22, 2003 to June 26, 2004.

Betts played right field for the first time in 2025, taking over in right field in the eighth inning. Andy Pages was already removed earlier in the game when the deficit was seven runs, and Justin Dean was pinch-hit for in the top of the eighth with Miguel Rojas. Betts, a six-time Gold Glove Award-winner in right field, played every one of his defensive innings at shortstop before the final frame on Monday.

“Mookie volunteered to kick out to right field,” Roberts told reporters in Anaheim after the game, as shown on SportsNet LA. “Just being a good teammate.”

Teoscar Hernández, the other active outfielder, did not start on Monday and was not used at all in the series opener.

Home runs: Shohei Ohtani (42), Max Muncy (17); Zach Neto 2 (19)

WP — José Soriano (8-9): 6 IP, 2 hits, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts

LP — Yoshinobu Yamamoto (10-8): 4 2/3 IP, 6 hits, 6 runs, 5 walks, 6 strikeouts

Sv — Kenley Jansen (22): 1 IP, 2 strikeouts

Emmet Sheehan takes the mound in the middle game of the series on Tuesday night (6:38 p.m.; SportsNet LA, FanDuel Sports Network). Old friend Tyler Anderson was scratched with back stiffness so Victor Mederos will start for the home team on Tuesday instead, per Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com.