ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 5:

Jimenez struggles, puts Orioles in early hole

Seth Smith’s two-run home run in the seventh inning sealed the Orioles’ victory; Manny Machado hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning.

The Orioles didn’t acquire Seth

Smith for his power stroke, but they obviously knew he had a pretty good one.

Lest anyone forget, he was the guy who hit a home run for the Seattle Mariners in each game of a four-game sweep of the Orioles at Safeco Field last season, so no one should’ve been surprised when he hammeredatwo-run shot onto the flag court in the seventh Friday night to bring the Orioles from behind in a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees at Camden Yards.

Smith was brought here because of his solid career on-base percentage, which is why he has been in the leadoff spot in the two games he started so far. He has responded with three extra-base hits in his first eight Orioles at-bats, two of them accounting for three runs in the series opener against the Yankees (1-3).

Aside from his homer, he doubled in the bottom of the first inning and scored his team’s first run on a single by Adam Jones. But the Yankees had built a four-run lead against veteran starter Ubaldo Jimenez before the Orioles offense finally got in gear.

Manny Machado brought them most of the way back with a three-run homer in the fifth to spoil a solid outing by righthander Luis Severino.

After Smith’s homer, Setup reliever Brad Brach and closer

Zach Britton did the rest as the Orioles improved to 3-0.

Britton fell awkwardly on his ankle while trying to field a comebacker in the ninth, and was examined by the training staff. But he stayed in the game and notched his second save.

Ubaldo’s rough start: Jimenez struggled from the outset and could not get out of the fifth inning in his 2017 debut, allowing five runs over 4 1⁄3 innings — four of them on a pair of long two-run homers. Drake’s debut: Reliever Oliver Drake relieved Jimenez. He pitched a total of one inning and allowed a walk and a single before giving way to Darren O’Day.

O’Day’s OK: O’Day was held out of the first two games of the season because of a nasty case of the flu, but he came on to pitch in the sixth inning and faced six batters over 11⁄3 innings. Lefthander Donnie Hart also made his 2017 regular-season debut and finished the seventh to earn the first win of his career.