Yankees Pull Out Win in 10th, 2-1 : Angels: Sax’s grounder scores go-ahead run against Harvey. Langston gives up only three hits through nine innings.

The lights were off in Doug Rader’s office, matching the power outage that has recently afflicted the Angels’ offense.

The Angels ended a 26-inning scoreless streak Friday night at Anaheim Stadium, but that wasn’t enough. Steve Sax’s slow grounder to second scored Bernie Williams with one out in the 10th inning to give the New York Yankees a 2-1 victory over the Angels and extend the Angels’ losing streak to a season-high six games.

Williams had led off the inning with a single against Bryan Harvey (1-2). Williams went to second on a single by pinch-hitter Matt Nokes on an 0-and-2 forkball and advanced to third on a sacrifice by Pat Kelly up the third base line.

Sax followed with a grounder played by second baseman Donnie Hill, who couldn’t get the ball out of his glove quickly enough. Even if he had, it is questionable whether he would have gotten Williams at home.

“It wasn’t hit real hard and Donnie didn’t have a whole lot of chance to do anything with it,” Harvey said.

Angel starter Mark Langston pitched nine strong innings, giving up two hits in the first inning and then stifling the Yankees until Jesse Barfield singled with one out in the ninth.

Langston’s teammates were able to produce only one run against rookie right-hander Scott Kamieniecki, on two singles and a walk in the fifth inning. They loaded the bases in the third but were unable to score when rookie left fielder Hensley Meulens made a diving catch on a sinking liner hit by Dave Parker.

“Mark did a great job, but we’re just not doing much offensively,” Rader said. “We haven’t had many chances to score lately. . . . It just happens sometimes. You can’t do a heck of a lot with it except be patient and stick with the guys. We had the one chance, but the kid in left (Meulens) made a good play.”

Steve Howe (3-0) pitched two-thirds of an inning to get credit for the victory that brought the Yankees’ record to .500 for the first time since they were 1-1 on April 10.

“There’s no question pitching and defense kept us in this one,” Yankee Manager Stump Merrill said after his team won for the 12th time in its last 15 games. “We didn’t do much offensively. Fortunately for us, neither did they.”

The Angels have scored only four runs in their last 47 innings, a trend that was sustained by Meulens’ catch. Merrill applauded the diving grab nearly as loudly as the 31,348 fans. “His hat came off. When I saw the New York logo on his hat, I thought it was the ball,” Merrill said. “But when I saw him rolling around on the ground, I knew he had it.”

Sax had sparked the Yankees in the first inning, too, when he slammed a double to the warning track in center on an 0-and-1 pitch. Randy Velarde then worked the count full and drew a walk. Don Mattingly, a left-handed hitter who had a .306 average against Langston before Friday’s game, improved that by lining a double over Dave Winfield’s head, scoring Sax and moving Velarde to third.

Faced with a potentially big inning, Langston regrouped and quelled the Yankees’ threat. He struck out Barfield, got Kevin Maas to pop up to shortstop Dick Schofield in short right-center and struck out Meulens to end the inning.

The Angels managed to get a runner on base in both the first and second innings, but it didn’t result in any scoring. Luis Polonia led off the first by reaching when third baseman Pat Kelly bobbled his grounder for an instant, but Polonia got no further when Wally Joyner flied to left and Winfield grounded into a double play.

Gary Gaetti singled to left with two out in the second. But he was stranded when Max Venable struck out.

Then, in the fifth, to applause generally saved for grand slams or dramatic rallies, the Angels produced a run.

Schofield led off with a single to right and stole second with Polonia at bat. Polonia flied to left, but oyner walked. Winfield then lined a 1-and-2 pitch to right-center, scoring Schofield. Joyner took third, but Parker popped to Meulens and Lance Parrish grounded out.

That was the last of the Angels’ offense.