Gardner’s 2-run Single In 9th Lifts Yankees Over Orioles 4-3

BALTIMORE (AP) — Brett Gardner blooped a two-run azygous successful the ninth inning that was acceptable up by a treble steal, and the New York Yankees bushed the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 Wednesday nighttime for their 3rd consecutive win.

The Yankees kept gait with Toronto and Boston atop the AL wild-card standings arsenic each 3 teams won.

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Austin Hays homered doubly for the Orioles, including a two-out, two-run thrust successful the eighth disconnected Chad Green for a 3-2 lead. The homer came soon aft 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres knocked down a hard liner and alternatively of throwing to 2nd to get the pb runner, tossed to archetypal to enactment retired Cedric Mullins.

Orioles reliever Tyler Wells (2-3) walked Luke Voit to statesman the ninth and Torres followed with a single. Pinch-runner Tyler Wade and Torres pulled disconnected a treble bargain with 1 retired arsenic it began to rain.

Gardner followed with a azygous to halfway that scored some runs, overmuch to the delight of their fans that flocked to Camden Yards.

Wandy Peralta (5-3) earned the triumph and Aroldis Chapman got his 27th save.

Gio Urshela launched a two-run homrer into the left-center bleachers successful the third. Urshela took implicit arsenic the full-time shortstop this week for the error-prone Torres and had a diving drawback disconnected a hard liner by Austin Wynns for the last retired successful the fifth.

Mullins took a two-run homer distant from Gary Sanchez successful the 2nd with a leaping drawback implicit the center-field fence. Orioles starter John Means pointed to Mullins successful solemnisation and Sanchez walked backmost to the dugout successful disbelief.

Means had different effectual outing and allowed 2 runs and 4 hits with 4 strikeouts and 2 walks successful 5 2/3 innings. It was the 5th clip this play the Orioles failed to people a tally erstwhile Means was connected the mound.

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Hays homered successful the sixth and added his 20th of the play successful the eighth.

TRAINING ROOM

Yankees: RHP Domingo Germán (right enarthrosis inflammation) did not person immoderate issues aft pitching for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre connected Tuesday and could rejoin the squad arsenic a reliever aft 1 much rehab outing. German has gone 4-5 with a 4.45 ERA implicit 21 games (18 starts) this season.

Orioles: DH Trey Mancini near the crippled Tuesday nighttime with soreness successful his close oblique/abdomen and was initially backmost successful the lineup earlier being scratched. … C Pedro Severino inactive has discomfort successful his precocious leg/groin country and is day-to-day.

UP NEXT

Yankees: LHP John Montgomery (5-6, 3.71 ERA) picked up the triumph against Baltimore with six scoreless innings connected April 5, but helium didn’t past past the 5th inning successful his adjacent 2 starts against them and did not get a decision.

Orioles: LHP Chris Ellis (1-0, 2.08 ERA) has pitched good since being claimed disconnected waivers from Tampa Bay successful August, allowing 5 runs with 11 strikeouts implicit 17 2/3 innings.

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