Judge blasts not enough in Bronx
NEW YORK Ramón Urías hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning off Gerrit Cole and the Baltimore Orioles withstood Aaron Judge’s two home runs to beat the Yankees 6-4 Monday night, sending New York to a season-high third straight loss.
Urías started Baltimore’s four-run third with a double down the leftfield line, then snapped a 4-all tie by lining an 0-and-1 fastball to the short porch in right field off Cole.
The Yankees, who began the day with the best record in the majors, have lost three in a row for the first time since dropping seven straight last September. Before getting swept in Sunday’s doubleheader to the White Sox and losing their second straight to the Orioles, the Yankees had won 24 of 29.
Judge upped his major leagueleading home run total to 17, five ahead of Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez and Angels star Mike Trout. Judge hit his 31st and 32nd career homers against Baltimore pitching when he connected in the first and fifth off Jordan Lyles.
It was Judge’s 20th career multihomer game, fourth this season and seventh in his career against the Orioles.
Judge hit a solo homer six pitches in, sending a 1-and-1 offering into Baltimore’s bullpen in left-centre. He then hit a tying, two-run homer in the fifth, two innings after Cole allowed four runs.
Lyles survived becoming the latest Baltimore pitcher to be taken deep by Judge and allowed four runs and five hits in 6 2⁄3 innings. Félix Bautista followed Lyles’ season-high 117-pitch outing and struck out Giancarlo Stanton with two on after walking Judge.
Bautista also tossed a perfect eighth and Jorge López converted his fifth save. Jose Trevino hit an RBI single in the second for New York’s other run.