Angels’ Dan Haren makes early exit in loss to Red Sox

It was a shot in the arm, all right.

Just not the kind the Angels wanted.

Dan Haren’s first start as an Angel ended abruptly in the fifth inning Monday night when a line drive off the bat of Kevin Youkilis smacked into the pitcher’s right forearm.

The right-hander crouched in agony before walking off the field, his debut finished during the Angels’ eventual 6-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Angel Stadium.

Haren sustained a bruise on his forearm and is scheduled to be re-examined Tuesday by Dr. Lewis Yocum, the Angels’ team orthopedist.

Boston cleanup hitter David Ortiz delivered more body blows with two homers in the same ballpark where he won the home run derby exactly two weeks earlier as part of the All-Star game festivities.

Ortiz hit a solo homer off Haren in the third inning and a towering two-run shot off reliever Fernando Rodney in the eighth, sending the Angels to their fifth defeat in six games. They fell into a tie with Oakland for second place in the American League West, a season-high 7œ games behind Texas.

Hideki Matsui did his best to revive a slumbering offense with a two-run homer off Boston reliever Scott Atchison in the eighth, but it wasn’t enough on a night the Angels failed to drive in a run after loading the bases with nobody out in the second inning and went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.

Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon recorded a four-out save, getting some breathing room when J.D. Drew hit a two-run double off Angels reliever Michael Kohn in the ninth.

It was not the kind of first impression Haren (0-1) was hoping to make after coming over from Arizona in a trade designed to bolster the Angels’ rotation. He gave up seven hits and two runs in 4 2/3 innings with eight strikeouts, failing to emerge from a six-week slump in which he hasn’t recorded a victory.

Ortiz has homered off Haren both times Boston has faced the right-hander this season and is batting .412 (7 for 17) with three homers in his career against him. The slugger hit a two-run homer off Haren on June 17 during the Red Sox’s 8-5 interleague victory over the Diamondbacks, which started Haren’s current streak of eight consecutive starts without a victory.

Rodney hit Adrian Beltre with his second pitch after Ortiz’s eighth-inning homer, prompting home plate umpire Wally Bell to warn both teams.

Haren recorded an out on the first pitch he threw as an Angel, getting Marco Scutaro to pop up to catcher Jeff Mathis behind home plate. He then struck out two of the next three batters and was handed an early lead when Bobby Abreu hit a solo homer in the bottom of the inning.

But the Red Sox tied the score in the second after center fielder Torii Hunter nearly made a spectacular leaping catch at the wall on a drive by Beltre only to have the ball glance off his glove for a triple, Hunter momentarily losing track of the ball as it rolled around on the warning track.

Things further deteriorated after Haren retired the first two batters in the fifth, Youkilis redirecting a 93-mph fastball back at the pitcher. Haren didn’t even attempt a warmup pitch to test his arm before walking off the field alongside Manager Mike Scioscia and trainer Rick Smith.

ben.bolch@latimes.com