Orioles topple Yankees
Tiebreaking homer by Urias in sixth propels Baltimore
Ramon Urias 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 and send New York to its seasonhigh third straight loss.
Urias started Baltimore’s four-run third with a double down the left-field line, then snapped a 4-all tie by lining an 0-1 fastball to the short porch in right field off Cole (4-1).
The Yankees, who began the day with the best record in the majors, are on their first three-game losing streak 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 league-leading 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 (3-4).
It was Judge’s 20th career multi-homer game, fourth this season and seventh in his career against the Orioles.
Judge hit a solo homer six pitches in, sending a 1-1 offering into Baltimore’s bullpen in leftcenter. He then hit a tying, two-run homer in the fifth, two innings after Cole allowed four runs.
Cole entered the game with a 1.67 ERA in his previous five outings and allowed a season-worst five runs and seven hits in eight innings. He struck out 11 for his 49th career double-digit strikeout game.
Lyles survived becoming the latest Baltimore pitcher to be taken deep by Judge and allowed four runs and five hits in 62⁄3 innings. Felix Bautista followed Lyles’ seasonhigh 117-pitch outing and struck out Giancarlo Stanton with two on after walking Judge.
Bautista also tossed a perfect eighth and Jorge Lopez converted his fifth save.