Pitching falters as Yankees fall to Orioles
BALTIMORE — Maikel Franco homered and drove in three runs, rookie Bruce Zimmermann came out of the bullpen to hold down the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles avoided a three-game sweep by rallying to beat New York 10-6 on Sunday.
“It was a great comeback from our guys,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “We had a lot of tough losses here in the last week to two weeks.“
Aaron Judge homered for the third straight game and went 6 for 10 with four home runs and five RBIs in the series.
But Jordan Montgomery failed to hold leads of 4-0 in the first inning and 5-2 in the third, and New York dropped to 1-6 this season when trying to complete a series sweep.
“He had a hard time putting some guys away,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I thought they had some good at-bats off him. A couple of times he tried to show them the fastball late in the count, two strikes, he didn’t get it where he wanted to. There were some mistakes with that.”
Baltimore is 6-15 at Camden Yards, the worst home record in the major leagues.
Montgomery gave up five runs and six hits in three innings, raising his ERA to 4.75. He had allowed two runs over 11 innings in two previous starts against the Orioles this season.
“I am going to have to a look at it tomorrow and make it better,” Montgomery said. “A lot of things could have gone differently today.”
Baltimore went ahead for good at 6-5 in the fourth on Trey Mancini’s two-out RBI double off Michael King (0-1). Mancini has 32 RBIs in 40 games.
Franco had three hits, including a two-run homer off Wandy Peralta in the seventh that opened an 8-5 lead. Rookie Ryan Mountcastle added a two-run single against Luis Cessa in the eighth and finished with a season-high four RBIs.
ORIOLES 10
YANKEES 6