Baltimore – Split occurs.
The Yankees lost another game with a 4-3 score in 10 innings Thursday at Canden Yards to close out an eight-game road trip.
Cedric Mullins placed Ramon Urias third with a sacrifice fly to center Jonathan Losiga for the 10th win.
Uris started the second inning as an extra runner and was bounced on a third by Pat Wallicka before Mullins won it with a fly ball as Aaron Hicks left the third base line.
The loss dropped the Yankees back to the final spot with the Oroles in Anko East.
In the top 10, the Yankees did not get second runner-up Gio Urshela.
Darren O’Day allowed a run in the bottom of the eighth followed by a 3–2 lead to Baltimore, the Yankees rallied in the top of the ninth.
Mike Ford took a stroll for Clint Frazier, and after Brett Gardner was out, DJ Lemahieu did another trick. Giancarlo Stanton, who hit the ball vigorously throughout the afternoon, came out swinging before Gleiber Torres, a two-out, 1-2 pitch to ground-rule double-center to round out Ford and tie the game. Ripped off
If the ball was able to get Lemahieu home easily, the Yankees would have gone further if the ball hadn’t hit the fence.
Urshela struck out to end the inning.
Baldmore had an edge in the bottom of the eighth against O’Day.
The right-handed batsman opened the innings and gave Mullins a singleoff and then a double to left-center Austin Hass. Mullins came around to score a go-ahead run, with Riley coming in third on an error thrown at home by Gleiber Torres, but O’Day trapped Hedge on the next three batters.
Aroldis Chapman sent in the bottom of the ninth to play extra innings.
Jordan Montgomery pitched well enough – though he started and finished slowly.
The start of Montgomery’s first innings continued.
After allowing the first three in his last outing in Cleveland, the left-hander gave Baltimore a run with Mullins, who was leading with a single, second on a bunt by Hedge and scoring when Treya Nandini Did it from the left.
The Yankees first threatened against right-hander Jorge Lopez that the third had two outsiders.
Back-to-back singles at center by Lemahieu and Stanton were the first hits for the Yankees on the day, but Torres looked out.
He came up a little in the fourth. With one out and two outs, Gary Sanchez dropped one, sending the other to Hicks.
Frazier, who got married for the first time this season on Wednesday and put a line in his first at-bat, ran towards the wall on the right.
After Pedro Severino started the bottom of the fourth with a single from the right-hand wall, Frazier made a diving catch to Ryan Mountcastle’s fly ball to the right shallow.
Lopez entered the game with four starts with an ERA of 8.15 and left with two and no one out in the fifth, as the Yankees caught a break when a 3-2 pitch from Lemahue was called a ball. Gardner, who scrambled for a 1-26 skid with a lead-off single, was thrown in an attempt to steal another to play.
Adam Pluto entered to face Stanton, who poked on a single to load the bases for Torres.
Torres came out towards the shallow right and Urshella chased a high fastball for second.
Fortunately for the Yankees, Rougned Odor was next. Odor hit yet another clutch with a quick single to right that gave Yanks a 2–1 lead in Gardner and Lemahieu. It was his ninth hit as a Yankee – and the fifth that either tied the game or put the Yankees ahead.
With Chad Green warming up at Bulden, the Yankees started the sixth down to face Montini, who already had two hits with a left hand to face Manchini. Mancini knocked him out of the game with a homer to tie the innings 2–2.
Green then bounced back and faced all six batsmen.
Urshela entered eighth with a walk from leftie Paul Fry. Aaron Judge sat down with lower body soreness and pinched for Odor after hitting three pitches. Fry got Hicks and Sanchez to end the inning.
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