BALTIMORE — Nestor Cortes didn’t thoughts the warmth. The Yankees lefty took the mound with a first-pitch temperature of 97 levels and simply went to work. Cortes gave the Bombers six scoreless innings as they rallied from a nasty loss in a sweaty slog Saturday evening to beat the Orioles 6-0 at Camden yards.
The Yankees received their second sport of their 5 for the reason that All-Star Break. They clinched the sequence and completed the season sequence with Baltimore 11-5. While the Dodgers handed the Yankees for the perfect report in baseball due to the loss to the Orioles Saturday evening, they maintained the perfect report within the American League. That’s the Bombers objective for the second half of the season, staying forward of the Astros, to het the home-field benefit within the playoffs.
In his first begin after making his first All-Star look, Cortes scattered six hits and didn’t stroll a batter. He struck out seven. It was the fifteenth of his 18 begins this season that he has allowed three earned runs or much less, his fifth scoreless outing of the season. It was the second time this season he held the Orioles scoreless.
It was precisely what the Yankees wanted after having allowed the Orioles to come back again from a three-run deficit and beat them Saturday evening.
Aaron Judge crushed his third dwelling run of the sequence and his major-league main thirty seventh of the season. His 456-foot, two-run shot within the third inning went effectively over the reworked left-field wall that was pushed again 26.5 ft and raised to 13 ft this winter. It was Judge’s seventh dwelling run within the final 9 video games and his 81st RBI of the season.
Jose Trevino had a career-high for hits, going 4-for-4 with an RBI. He is simply the sixth Yankee catcher to have 4 hits in a sport and the primary since Gary Sanchez in 2019. Isaiah Kiner-Falefa prolonged his hitting streak to 12 straight video games, tying a season excessive streak set by DJ LeMahieu, who singled to increase his streak of reaching base in 25 straight begins. LeMahieu’s double drove within the Yankees first run
Clarke Schmidt, referred to as up on Saturday after the Yankees misplaced Michael King to a fractured elbow on Friday evening, gave the Yankees three scoreless innings.
Aaron Hicks, who had two hits, left the sport within the prime of the ninth inning with an obvious calf harm. In his earlier at-bat, Hicks had seemingly tweaked the leg on an enormous swing as Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone and a coach got here out to examine on him.
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