ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Yankees intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani to load the bases but escaped a jam in the fifth inning Monday night.

Two innings later, they pitched to the Angels superstar and got a reminder of why every contending team is dreaming about the chance to possibly land him at the trade deadline.

Ohtani crushed his 35th home run of the season, a two-run shot off Michael King that tied it in the seventh before the Angels dealt the Yankees the same excruciating fate for the second straight game.

Pinch-hitter Michael Stefanic delivered the final blow in the bottom of the 10th, roping a walk-off single against Nick Ramirez to lift the Angels to a 4-3 win at Angel Stadium.

The Yankees have lost seven of nine, and this loss, combined with the Red Sox’ 7-0 win in Oakland, left the Yankees alone in last place in the AL East.

In the top of the 10th, the Yankees had their automatic runner on third base with one out but could not get him in as Harrison Bader and Anthony Volpe struck out.

“I wish it wasn’t at my expense, but [Ohtani] is an incredible hitter,” said King, who has struggled of late and got burned by walking No. 9 hitter Eduardo Escobar two batters before Ohtani. “We knew as a team we didn’t want him to be the one that beat us. Unfortunately I got greedy in a two-strike count and tried to make a better pitch than I needed to.”

Manager Aaron Boone said he did not consider intentionally walking Ohtani with two outs in the seventh because he was the potential tying run as opposed to the fifth, when the Angels (47-48) had runners on the corners with two outs in a scoreless game.

“When we have a two-run lead there [in the seventh] — the guy hitting behind him [Mickey Moniak] is hitting .330, too,” Boone said. “So I wasn’t gonna put another runner out at second and the tying run on and the go-ahead run at the plate with a two-run lead. Now had [Escobar] gotten to second and we were behind in the count or something, different story. But no, not in that [spot].”

In the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees (50-45) pitched to Ohtani again, but Ramirez got him to whiff at three straight pitches for the quick strikeout.

Ramirez, who gave up a game-tying home run in the 11th inning of Sunday’s loss to the Rockies, got the ninth inning on Monday on a night when the bullpen was without Wandy Peralta, Tommy Kahnle and Ian Hamilton because of recent workloads.

Boone said he was saving Clay Holmes, who had also pitched on back-to-back days, for a potential save situation.

The Yankees struck out 17 times — including 12 in 5 ²/₃ innings against starter Griffin Canning — as they continued to scuffle offensively and give their pitching staff little to no margin for error.

“I thought we did a lot of good things tonight, but certain situations there, you gotta be able to make better adjustments in certain situations,” Boone said.

The only Yankee who did not strike out was leadoff hitter Oswald Peraza, who reached base all five times with a single and four walks.

He scored an insurance run in the top of the seventh to put the Yankees ahead 3-1 after Luis Severino had completed six strong innings in a much-needed bounce-back effort.

But King couldn’t protect the lead.

He hurt himself by walking Escobar, marking the second straight game in which he walked a team’s No. 9 hitter before giving up a two-run homer — as he did to the Rockies’ Kris Bryant on Friday.

With a 1-2 count, King threw a 97 mph fastball on the outer third that Ohtani jumped on and deposited beyond the wall in left-center field.

“It’s on me today,” King said.

Two innings earlier, the Yankees had chosen a different route in what was then a scoreless game.

With two outs and runners on the corners, the Yankees intentionally walked Ohtani to load the bases.

The move worked out as Severino got Moniak, with a full count and the buzzing crowd of 41,180 on its feet, to fly out to end the threat.

The Yankees then took a 2-0 lead in the top of the sixth when Oswaldo Cabrera came up with the bases loaded and roped a ground-rule double to left-center field.

The only run that Severino allowed all night came in the bottom of the sixth, when he gave up a solo shot to Matt Thaiss.