Orioles vs Yankees Series Recap
Facing their first AL East series, the Baltimore Orioles headed to New York going down a dangerous path starting the season with a 1-5 record but the Orioles turned the script. The Orioles now are headed back to Baltimore with a 4-6 record.
Game 1- Andrew Cashner took the responsibility to make a early statement by going six strong innings and lead the Orioles to snap their five-game losing streak. Cashner allowed two hits and struck out five. The Orioles offense then came alive in the seventh started by none other then the captain, Adam Jones. Jones homered to left, scoring Schoop for a 2-1 Orioles lead. That was followed up by a Santander double and a Mancini single to take a 5-1 lead. The Yankees would answer back with one run of their own in the bottom of the seventh.
That was it from the Yankees, Brad Brach recored his first save of the year and the Orioles walked away with a 5-2 win.
Game 2- Manny Machado may have waited to long to get his first home run but it all worked out for Machado. Homering in the first inning off CC Sabathia taking a 1-0 lead. The Yankees came right back when Stanton singled to right to tie the game 1-1. Then again Machado homered of Sabathia and gave the Orioles a 2-1 lead that wouldn’t last long becuase Judge would single in the bottom half of the third and tie the game up 2-2.
Chris Davis would then get his first homer of the year, taking Sabathia 400ft to right center. Orioles lead 3-2 until Didi Gregorius added a homer of his own off Castro, tieing the game at 3-3.
The game would turn out to be a battle of the bullpens, going fourteen innings the Yankess used a total of eight pitchers while the Orioles used six to get through the extra inning game. Things ended when Pedro Álvarez hit a grand slam in the top of the fourteenth to give the Orioles a 7-4 win.
https://www.mlb.com/orioles/video/alvarezs-grand-slam-in-the-14th/c-1911561083?tid=8879234
Game 3- Coming off a rough extra-inning loss that stretched well past midnight the Yankees took advantage of the quick turn around with the game being at 1:05pm. Sonny Gray lead the Yankees to a 8-3 win with a great performance after losing the first two games of the series. Gray’s line through six-innings pitched, four hits, three runs, two walks, and four strike-outs.
The Yankees offense woke up after two games of subpar production, racking up eight runs on eleven hits lead by Brett Gardner’s two hits and two RBI’s. Judge added an two run RBI double as well.
Game 4- Just as Friday night went into extras, Sunday’s finale had its own bases-loaded situation and this time the Orioles were on the wrong side of the situation. Fighting back from a pour start from Mike Wright Jr. the Baltimore started only got two outs before being pulled in the bottom of the first inning already being down 5-0 to the Yankees.
Orioles offense did what they had to do cutting down the Yankees lead slow an steady. The Orioles got one run back in the second, one again in the third, and two in the fifth to cut the Yankees lead to one, then the Yankees added one of there own to have a 6-4 lead after six innings. The Orioles would then add one in the sixth and then Santander got his first homer of his career in the seventh and gave the Orioles their first lead 7-6. Not lasting long the Yankees would tie the game up 7-7 after seven.
Leading to once again a bullpen battle that was taken to extra’s, this time Pedro Álvarez wasn’t the hero but was the winning run. Craig Gentry battled through a eleven pitch at bat to eventually single to left and knock in Álvarez to take a 8-7 lead in the top half of the twelfth.
Not over yet, the Yankees loaded the bases in the bottom of the twelfth and had none other then Aaron Judge up. All rise? Never-mind Judge would ground into a double play, a double play unlike any other too. Judge dribbled one back to Brach then to the Joesph and a heads up play was made by Joesph who threw it to third to get the lead runner out (1-2-5). With two outs Brad Brach would then strike out Stanton, for his second five strikeout game. Orioles win 8-7 and take three out of four from the Yankees.
https://www.mlb.com/orioles/video/gentrys-go-ahead-single-in-12th/c-1917758883?tid=8879234
UP NEXT
Orioles return home for a three game series vs Toronto, starting Monday when ace Dylan Bundy takes the hill. The Orioles will look to take their offense momentum into a quick home stand, while trying to get some rest for the bullpen that did a great job in New York.
