New York Yankees sweep the Baltimore Orioles

 The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday afternoon.  The game took place

at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 10-5.  Jameson Taillon started for the

Yankees and he battled.  The bullpen was good except for Ron Marinaccio who later got demoted to AAA.

The offense was led by Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo who each had two hits.  

Taillon pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up seven hits and two runs with a walk and four strikeouts.  Miguel 

Castro pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and he picked up his second 

win of the season.  Wandy Peralta pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit, Jonathan Loaisiga pitched 

1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out three and Chad Green pitched an inning with two strikeouts.

Marinaccio pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up four hits and three runs with two strikeouts and Lucas 

Luetge pitched 1/3 of an inning with a walk.  

Bruce Zimmermann started for the Orioles and he pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up five hits and four 

unearned runs with a walk and five strikeouts.  Bryan Baker pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit, 

Mike Baumann pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three hits and two runs with one being earned and two

walks.  Paul Fry pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and four runs with three being earned.  He walked 

one and struck out four.  

DJ LeMahieu had a hit, Judge had two hits and four RBI and Rizzo had two hits and an RBI.  Giancarlo 

Stanton had a hit, RBI and drew a walk, Josh Donaldson had a hit and an RBI and Joey Gallo drew a walk.

Tim Locastro had a hit and drew two walks, Marwin Gonzalez had a hit and two RBI and Kyle 

Higashioka had a hit.  Rizzo, Gonzalez and LeMahieu each hit a double and Judge hit a homerun.  The

Yankees were 6-15 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Locastro had a stolen base

and was caught stealing and Judge had an outfield assist.  

Trey Mancini had two hits and an RBI, Austin Hays had four hits and an RBI and Roughned Odor had 

three hits and an RBI.  Jorge Mateo had a hit, Ryan McKenna had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and

Ramon Urias drew a walk.  Kelvin Gutierrez had two hits and an RBI.  Hays hit three doubles, Odor hit 

two and McKenna and Mancini each hit one.  The Orioles were 4-15 with runners in scoring position 

and left 13 men on base.  Gutierrez committed two errors, Mateo committed two errors and Baumann one

error.  

In the second Gutierrez hit an RBI single giving the Orioles a 1-0 lead.  In the third Mancini hit an RBI

groundout making it 2-0.  In the bottom of the fifth Gonzalez hit an RBI double, Judge hit an RBI single 

and Rizzo hit an RBI single making it 3-2 Yankees.  Stanton hit an RBI single pushing the lead to 4-2.

In the bottom of the sixth Gonzalez hit a sac fly extending the lead to 5-2.  In the bottom of the seventh

Donaldson hit an RBI single and in the bottom of the eighth a wild pitch made it 7-2.  Judge hit a 

three-run homer and it was 10-2 Yankees.  In the ninth Hays hit an RBI double, Odor an RBI double and 

McKenna an RBI single and the lead was cut to 10-5 which would be the final score.  

The Yankees swept the three game series and won their sixth game in a row.  They will head to Kansas 

City to begin a three game series Friday night.