Orioles hit four home runs and rout Yankees
BALTIMORE – Dylan Bundy pitched 5 2/3 innings of shutout ball as the Baltimore Orioles, with three homers in the second inning, beat the New York Yankees 8-0 Friday in the first of a crucial three-game series for both teams.
Baltimore (73-61) won for just the third time in eight games while the Yankees (69-64) lost for only the third time in nine outings. The win gave Orioles manager Buck Showalter 1,413 career victories, putting him in a tie for 25th place with former Yankees manager Miller Huggins (1918-29).
The Orioles hit three doubles and four home runs, giving them a MLB-best 213 this year. Mark Trumbo had two hits, including a homer, and Pedro Alvarez, Chris Davis and Manny Machado had two-run homers.
Donnie Hart came on in the sixth for Bundy (8-5), who allowed just two singles – the third time he has allowed two hits or less in 10 starts this year. He threw a season-high 97 pitches and walked four with five strikeouts.
The loser was Yankees starter Chad Green (2-4), who gave up four runs in 1 2/3 innings before he left with an injury. New York could muster just two hits against four pitchers.
Jonathan Holder entered the game in the last of the sixth to pitch for the Yankees as he made his MLB debut. He struck out the first batter he faced, Adam Jones, and catcher Gary Sanchez threw the game ball into the New York dugout for safe keeping in one of the few Yankee highlights.
Jones also had two hits for the Orioles, who are 44-24 at home. Vance Worley pitched a scoreless eighth and Tommy Hunter went the ninth for the Orioles in the team’s sixth shutout.
The Orioles scored six runs in the second inning. Adam Jones drove in a run with a bloop single and Pedro Alvarez followed with a two-run homer to right.
It was the 20th homer of the season for Alvarez and he became the sixth Baltimore player with 20 homers this year. The last team to do that was the 2010 Toronto Blue Jays, who had seven players reach that mark.
Green, after a walk to Manny Machado, was visited at the mound by manager Joe Girardi and an athletic trainer in the second and was removed for the game as Nick Goody came in to pitch.
The first batter he faced, Chris Davis, hit a two-run homer and Trumbo followed with a solo shot to give the Orioles a 6-0 lead.
Green left with right elbow pain and will undergo further tests. Goody allowed two runs in 1 1/3 innings before Kirby Yates came on in the fourth and gave up a two-run homer to Machado to give the Orioles an 8-0 margin.
Bundy, making his 10th career start and second against the Yankees, entered the game with a 3.71 ERA this year. He allowed just two hits and no runs in the first five innings.
Green loaded the bases in the first on two singles and a walk but fanned Jonathan Schoop for the final out of the frame. But he could not get out of the second.
The third-place Orioles began the day four games back of the first-place Blue Jays and 2 1/2 games ahead of the Yankees in the American League East.
NOTES: CF Adam Jones was back in the starting lineup for Baltimore after missing the last five games with a hamstring injury. ... The Yankees called up INF Rob Refsnyder, RHP Nick Goody, RHP Luis Severino, RHP Jonathan Holder and OF Eric Young, Jr. from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and RHP Kirby Yates from rookie-level Pulaski. New York RHP Nick Rumbelow was reinstated from the 7-day disabled list, recalled from Triple-A and put on the 60-day disabled list. ... Baltimore called up C Caleb Joseph, LHP Jayson Aquino and RHP Tyler Wilson from Triple-A Norfolk. Also, OFs Michael Bourn and Drew Stubbs were eligible after Bourn was acquired in a trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks and Stubbs was claimed off waivers from the Texas Rangers, both on Wednesday. ... Orioles RHP Kevin Gausman (6-10, 3.73) is slated to face Yankees LHP CC Sabathia (8-11, 4.31) in the second game of the series Saturday. ... Yankees 1B Mark Teixeira is playing his last series in Baltimore before he retires at the end of this season. He was born in nearby Annapolis, Md., and played in college at Georgia Tech.