NEW YORK — Aaron Judge saw Mike Trout’s two home runs and matched them. Trent Grisham, homerless all season, hit a couple of bombs himself. Even José Caballero went deep, and then scored the winning run off a wild pitch in the New York Yankees’ gutsy, 11-10 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.

Fans will remember the victory for how it snapped a five-game losing streak that got especially ugly over the weekend in Tampa Bay, and for how it would have otherwise been a contender for worst loss of the season, even in mid-April.

The Yankees, though, should mark it as yet another reason that use of their bullpen should come with directions to hold your nose.

Going into the season, it was going to be hard to instantly trust any of their relievers outside of David Bednar, Tim Hill and Fernando Cruz. Little has happened to change that. On Monday, the Yankees got more poor results from Jake Bird and Camilo Doval — two of their disappointing trade deadline acquisitions from last year.

Bird gave up a three-run homer to Trout that erased the 7-4 advantage he had been handed with two outs in the sixth inning. He also let evaporate an 8-7 lead the Yankees had in the seventh on a one-out sacrifice fly by Josh Lowe.

The Yankees demoted Bird after the game. The options at Triple A to replace him aren’t all that appetizing.

“Look,” manager Aaron Boone said, “obviously a tough night for him. But I also thought he kind of made a lot of really good pitches, too. But, obviously, a couple of mistakes that they really put charges into to set them up and get them back in the game. Had a hard time finishing off at-bats where he was ahead in the count.”

Doval did his part when he got the Yankees out of a jam with a runner on third and two out after he entered for Bird in the seventh. But he then gave up a leadoff single in the eighth before Trout worked him to a full count and hit a low slider for a two-run homer that made it 10-8 Angels.

Boone said that “Trout hit a breaking ball on him,” on that homer. Trout actually golfed a low-middle slider from Doval, sending it soaring over the visitors’ bullpen in left-center field. It registered at 445 feet. Trout didn’t just “hit a breaking ball on him.” He destroyed it.

MIKE TROUT CRUSHES ANOTHER HOME RUN 445 FEET 😳 pic.twitter.com/DikJFFhPTa

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Boone said he thought he was actually “a little bit unfair” to Doval by bringing him back for a second inning Monday, even if he had thrown just five pitches to the only batter he faced. Boone’s reasoning? Doval had thrown 11 pitches the day before and eight pitches on Friday.

“I think he’s throwing the ball well,” Boone said. “I thought the stuff was really good. He was in the strike zone.”

Doval had entered the night having given up four earned runs in six total innings (6.00 ERA) over eight games, with six hits, a walk and six strikeouts.

And it didn’t help the Yankees that the typically solid Cruz entered in the fourth inning for starter Will Warren, then walked the first batter he saw to load the bases. Cruz then issued another walk to Zach Neto that brought in a run and tied the game at 4-4.

The Yankees needed more from Warren, who should have been able to last more than 3 2/3 innings (three hits, six strikeouts, one walk). None of the four runs he allowed were earned, thanks to Caballero botching a grounder to start the fourth inning.

Boone added that lefty relievers Brett Headrick and Ryan Yarbrough weren’t available after they’d both pitched Sunday. He said that he wanted to keep righty Paul Blackburn for later in the game if the Yankees needed length. Blackburn pitched a scoreless eighth.

Still, the Yankees’ problem was having to rely on Bird and Doval in key spots, and they didn’t show up again. They were able to send down Bird, but it’s hard to imagine them doing the same with Doval even though he does have two options. They need him to find consistency, which he hasn’t for much of the time he’s been in pinstripes.

After the game, Warren said the Yankees “have confidence handing the ball over to (the bullpen) to finish the game.”

“Those guys are nasty down there from top to bottom,” he said.

Yes, and too often so far, the nastiness makes Yankees fans want to hold their noses.