Yankees’ 4 HRs carry Happ to win over Orioles

Torrid-hitting Miguel Andujar insists his focus is solely on helping the New York Yankees reach the playoffs.

Torrid-hitting Miguel Andujar insists his focus is solely on helping the New York Yankees reach the playoffs.

If a byproduct of that quest is an AL Rookie of the Year Award, well, the 23-year-old will savor the accomplishment during the offseason.

Andujar homered and had four RBIs, J.A. Happ pitched six sharp innings to win his fifth straight start with the Yankees and New York breezed to a 10-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday in the opener of a split doubleheader.

After driving in a first-inning run with a groundout, Andujar put the Yankees up 5-2 in the third with a three-run shot off Jimmy Yacabonis (0-2).

With his 42nd multihit game, Andujar raised his batting average since the All-Star break to .344. He leads all AL rookies in hitting (.298), RBIs (70) and is second in home runs (21).

“He’s a special kind of talent,” Happ said. “The production has been huge for us.”

Teammate Aaron Judge was a unanimous pick as rookie of the year in 2017, and Andujar just might make it two in a row for New York.

“At the end of it all, if it happens, it happens,” Andujar said through an interpreter. “We are trying accomplish something bigger here than individual awards.”

Brett Gardner, Gleyber Torres and Aaron Hicks hit solo shots for the Yankees, who have won six of seven to move a seasonhigh 34 games over .500 (81-47).

Giancarlo Stanton just missed joining the longball party. Seeking his

33rd homer of the season, Stanton was poised to break into a trot around the bases when his sixthinning drive to center field ended up in the glove of a leaping Cedric Mullins , who reached over the 7-foot wall and snagged the ball in the webbing.

Happ (15-6) allowed

two runs and five hits with nine strikeouts. Since coming from Toronto in a July 26 trade, the righthander is 5-0 with a 2.37 ERA.

The 35-year-old Happ is the first player to win his first five starts with the Yankees since Rob Gardner from 1970-72.

PATRICK SEMANSKY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Yankees’ Miguel Andujar, right, jogs past Baltimore Orioles catcher Austin Wynns after scoring on Luke Voit’s single in the fifth inning of a baseball game, Saturday in Baltimore.