Pineda pounded in Yankees’ loss
New York — Mark Trumbo hit his major league-leading 47th home run, Jonathan Schoop and Adam Jones also went deep in a sixrun fifth inning and the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 8-1 in steady rain Friday night to maintain their AL wild-card lead.
Baltimore began the night tied with Toronto for the AL’s two wild cards at 87-72, with Detroit 1 1/2 games back and Seattle trailing the Tigers by a half-game.
Trumbo and Jones homered off Michael Pineda (6-12), who started with 3 2/3 hitless innings and suddenly became ineffective.
Schoop tied his career high with five RBIs, hitting a go-ahead, tworun double in the fourth and adding a three-run homer in the fifth against James Pazos — Baltimore’s big league-high 250th home run this season.
Yovani Gallardo (6-8) won for just the second time in nine starts since Aug. 5, allowing two hits, three walks and Mark Teixeira’s sacrifice fly in six innings.
Eliminated on Thursday, New York rested two regulars and pulled four others by the sixth inning.
There were maybe 1,000 people in the seats among the announced crowd of 33,955 when the game began, and there was standing water on the warning track. Only about 200 stayed in the seats for the final out.
Yankees second baseman Ronald Torreyes, center fielder Eric Young Jr. and first baseman Tyler Austin slipped to the turf while attempting to field balls. Third baseman Chase Headley splashed into a puddle in front of Baltimore’s dugout chasing a foul popup and Torreyes, having moved to shortstop, snagged Chris Davis’ wind-blown seventh-inning pop about 10 feet from home plate.
Jones’ 29th homer and Trumbo’s shot both landed in the left field second deck. Schoop doubled high off the right field wall and into the first deck in left. He also had five RBIs on May 14 against Detroit.
Pineda allowed five runs, six hits, two homers and three walks in 4 [1/3] innings, finishing with a 4.82 ERA. As Trumbo circled the bases, Pineda took off his cap and scratched his head.
Pineda leads in the AL with 10.6 strikeouts per nine innings but his ERA is 68th among 76 qualifying pitchers in the major leagues.