The Yankees already have plenty of question marks in their rotation without having to worry about Hiroki Kuroda's effectiveness.
But the right-hander got roughed up on Friday in a 13-1 loss to the Angels in The Bronx.
The Angels did most of their damage in a three-run second inning and then got a two-run homer from Ian Stewart in the third to go up 5-0.
Ivan Nova is out for the season and Michael Pineda is temporarily unavailable thanks to his affinity for pine tar. And even when Pineda returns from suspension, there's no telling how he'll perform under increased scrutiny.
Until then, the Yankees have to count on Vidal Nuno and David Phelps to start after having pitched out of the bullpen for most of the year.
When the Yankees brought Kuroda back in the offseason, they were hopeful he would fall into the form he had for much of the first half of 2013 — and not the disastrous last two months.
His first four outings of this season ranged from solid to mediocre. Against the Angels on Friday, though, Kuroda had nothing.
Kuroda (2-2) was able to pitch around two-out singles in the first by Albert Pujols and Raul Ibanez when Howie Kendrick grounded out to end the inning. That wasn't the case the following inning.
Stewart and Erick Aybar opened the second with singles before Hank Conger gave the Angels the lead with a run-scoring double to right. Former Met Collin Cowgill then bunted Aybar home from third and Conger scored on J.B. Shuck's ground out to make it 3-0.
Kuroda seemed to settle down in the third, retiring Pujols and Ibanez to start things off, but Kendrick singled to left to extend the inning and Stewart's fly to center just got out, despite Jacoby Ellsbury's leaping attempt at the fence.
Los Angeles Angels' Erick Aybar, right, and Howie Kendrick celebrate after they defeated the New York Yankees 13-1.Photo: AP
In the fifth, Albert Pujols led off with a mammoth homer to left and Kuroda didn't make it through the inning. It was his shortest outing of the season. He lasted just 4 ²/₃ innings while giving up eight runs — six earned.
C.J. Wilson (3-2) was once again effective against the Yankees. Through five innings, the lefty gave up just a pair of singles to Brett Gardner and two walks.
The Yankees managed to mount a threat in the bottom of the sixth when Carlos Beltran followed Derek Jeter's one-out single with a double to left. Alfonso Soriano drove in Jeter with a sacrifice fly to center.
The Yankees had won three of four before starting their nine-game home stand, but they hardly looked like a first-place team.
From Kuroda getting knocked around, to the feeble offense and a two-base error by Carlos Beltran that helped the Angels score two more runs in the fifth, the Yankees made their 14-5 rout of the Red Sox on Thursday in Boston a distant memory.
Bruce Billings only made matters worse in his Yankees debut. Called up earlier in the week from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the 28-year-old immediately surrendered a run-scoring double to Conger and then gave up homers to Aybar and Cowgill.
Prior to the game, Joe Girardi said he didn't think his team would be affected by the just-completed road trip, and he defended the decision to go with an extra pitcher with a roster spot lost to Pineda's suspension.
So while Billings didn't provide the Yankees with much, he was able to last four innings to allow Girardi to rest most of his bullpen, still depleted after Pineda's abbreviated outing on Wednesday.
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