 allowed four runs and eight hits with seven strikeouts and one walk over 5 1/3 innings. He is 5-0 in seven road games this season - the best stretch of his career.Brett Gardner had a pair of leadoff doubles and scored a run for the Yankees, who have won four consecutive games.Adam Jones, Joey Rickard and Manny Machado hit solo homers for the Orioles, who scored more than three runs for just the second time in 14 games.The Yankees took advantage of three defensive miscuses by the Orioles in the sixth.Second baseman Jonathan Schoop had a throwing error on an apparent double-play ball by Gary Sanchez off Kevin Gausman (3-5). A sinking liner to center by Didi Gregorius skipped by Jones, allowing Sanchez to score easily from first. Aaron Hicks followed with a single and Gregorius scored on a throwing error by Jones that extended the lead to 6-2.Gausman allowed six runs (five earned) and nine hits with nine strikeouts and no walks over 51/3 innings.Machado homered to open sixth and Tanaka left after allowing another single and walk. Jonathan Holder entered and allowed an RBI double by Danny Valencia that pulled the Orioles to within 6-4.The Yankees pulled away in the eighth on an RBI single by Hicks and a double by Andujar.The game was delayed 1 hour and 44 minutes because of rain.Jones gave the Orioles a 1-0 lead in the first with a homer to left-center. The Yankees took the lead an inning later on a two-run shot by Andujar.Stanton boosted the margin to 4-1 with another two-run homer in the third. Rickard answered with a solo shot in the bottom half.ACCOLADEYankees 2B Gleyber Torres was selected the AL's Rookie of the Month for May. He batted .317 with 13 runs scored, 26 hits, a double, nine home runs, 24 RBI and six walks.TRAINER'S ROOMYankees: RHP Adam Warren (back strain) threw a bullpen session Friday. ''He did well and is likely on track to be called up in the next couple of days,'' Boone said.Orioles: Closer Zach Britton (Achilles) will pitch Tuesday and Thursday for Triple-A Norfolk. He will then throw back-to-back outings the following Monday and Tuesday.UP NEXTYankees: Rookie Domingo German (0-3, 5.45 ERA) is pitching on extended rest because of a rainout Thursday.Orioles: Alex Cobb (1-7, 6.80 ERA) took the loss in his last two outings. He is 6-4 with a 2.99 ERA in 15 career starts against the Yankees.---More baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball)
Yankees could go 20 over .500 vs. Orioles 2h ago• 4 min read BALTIMORE -- Things are going so well for the New York Yankees that they can joke about rookie second baseman Gleyber Torres losing his shoe running to third and first baseman Greg Bird legging out a triple.Torres and Bird helped the Yankees get another win as they opened their first series of the season at Camden Yards with a 4-1 victory on Friday.Thanks to those hits, the Yankees get an opportunity to move 20 games above .500 for the first time this season on Saturday afternoon, when they continue their weekend series with the Baltimore Orioles."I was not impressed enough, he was out," Yankees manager Aaron Boone joked. "We were over there going have you run out of your shoes before. I didn't even see the throw come in because I saw the shoe go flying and I'm just hoping he can stay on his feet." The Yankees (36-17) have won three straight and five of seven after Torres drove in his 27th run with a single in the third inning -- three innings before losing his shoe while getting thrown out at third.Bird, who returned from ankle surgery last Saturday, added an RBI triple in the sixth when center fielder Adam Jones was unable to make the catch"I wouldn't call it as much relief as just fun," Bird told reporters. "It's a great group to be a part of. We have fun every day on and off the field and that's the biggest thing for me." Because of those hits and Aaron Judge's 16th homer, a 438-foot drive to left field, the Yankees can reach 20 games over this early for the first time since 1998 when they ended June 2 with a 39-13 record.Meanwhile, the Orioles (17-40) are the first team to reach 40 losses and their latest losing streak is at six games after they struck out 12 times and mustered only five hits.While Manny Machado hit his 17th homer and is batting .329, Baltimore's offense owns a .230 average and that includes Chris Davis, who is batting .152 after going 0-for-4 Friday."Just there's only so long before you have to do some things," Orioles manager Buck Showalter told reporters when asked about possible changes to the roster. "You keep waiting. The pitchers are good. This is the big leagues. But we've been better in these situations in the past. We've had over two months of baseball, so it's been a challenge for us." "You're not feeling good and we're not winning," Baltimore left fielder Trey Mancini added to reporters. "It can kind of spiral out of control and you have got to find a way to come here and put everything that's happened before behind you and kind of start fresh." Masahiro Tanaka is 6-2 with a 4.62 ERA and will be looking to win his third straight start. The focus this time will not be on an individual matchup with Shohei Ohtani, whom he struck out twice while allowing a run and three hits in six innings during Sunday's 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels.Tanaka is aiming to join Luis Severino as New York's second seven-game winner. He is 4-0 with a 4.22 ERA in his last seven starts since a 9-1 loss to the Miami Marlins on April 16.Tanaka also is the beneficiary of good run support. The Yankees have topped double digits in four of his starts and scored at least five times in six starts.The right-hander last faced the Orioles on April 5, the night before Pedro Alvarez hit a 14th-inning grand slam. He allowed three runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings, including a tiebreaking homer to Adam Jones on his slider in the seventh.The home run to Jones is one of 12 allowed by Tanaka, who has given up homers in four straight starts for the sixth time in his career. The only instance he allowed homers in five straight starts was June 5-28, 2014.Tanaka is 2-3 with a 3.65 ERA in nine starts against the Orioles. In Baltimore, he is 0-1 with a 4.82 ERA in three starts.Gausman was on the mound for the marathon game in New York and allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. It is one of the seven times that Gausman has allowed two earned runs or less.One of those instances was May 22 when he took a no-decision after striking out 10 and allowing nine hits in 6 1/3 innings in Baltimore's 3-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Gausman followed it up with his worst outing of the season when he gave up a season-high seven runs and six hits in a season-low 2 2/3 innings in Sunday's 8-3 loss at Tampa Bay.Gausman is 7-5 with a 3.53 ERA in 23 appearances (17 starts) against the Yankees. In 2016, he went 3-1 with a 1.10 ERA in six starts against the Yankees, but since then he is 1-2 with an 8.23 ERA in six starts.
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