The Mercury News

Yankees set HR record with 32 at Camden Yards

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The New York Yankees hit five more home runs at Camden Yards, including two by Mike Tauchman, to set a major league record and win their 13th straight game in Baltimore, 9-6 over the Orioles on Monday.

New York’s power surge and sixth straight win overshadow­ed a memorable night for Baltimore’s Jonathan Villar, who became the fifth Orioles player to hit for the cycle and first since Felix Pie on Aug. 14, 2009. Villar tripled in the third inning, doubled in the fifth, homered in the sixth and dumped a single into right field off Aroldis Chapman in the ninth.

Tauchman delivered a basesempty drive in the sixth inning and a tiebreakin­g solo shot off Paul Fry (1-4) in the eighth, his first career multihomer game. Austin Romine, Brett Gardner and Mike Ford also connected for the Yankees.

New York has hit 32 home runs at Camden Yards, a single-season record for most by a visiting team in one ballpark. The mark was previously held by the Milwaukee Braves, who hit 29 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field in 1957.

The Yankees did it in only eight games, and they can add to the record today and Wednesday against a woeful pitching staff that has yielded the most home runs in the majors.

RED SOX 7, ROYALS 5 >> Rick Porcello (10-8) pitched six innings of one-run ball, Sam Travis hit a two-run homer and the Red Sox halted their eight-game losing streak. Rafael Devers added a solo shot for the Red Sox. Travis gave Boston a homer in a clubrecord 18 straight games in Fenway Park. The old mark was set in 1969.

RANGERS 1, INDIANS 0 >> All-Star Mike Minor struck out seven over seven innings, Nomar Mazara drove in Elvis Andrus with a sacrifice fly in the fourth and Texas won in Cleveland. Minor (10-6) allowed seven hits and walked one as Texas won its fifth straight.

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