Stanton, Andujar lead Yankees past Orioles
BALTIMORE » Giancarlo Stanton and Miguel Andujar homered to help Masahiro Tanaka win his fifth straight decision, and the New York Yankees beat Baltimore 8-5 on Saturday to extend the Orioles’ losing streak to seven games.
Tanaka (7-2) allowed four runs and eight hits with seven strikeouts and one walk over 5.1 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 (35). 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 5.1 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 tworun 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.