NEW YORK — Gunnar Henderson opened Thursday evening’s recreation at Yankee Stadium by sending the seventh pitch from Yankees starter Luis Severino over the left-field wall for his first large league leadoff house run.
The enjoyable was solely starting for Henderson and the Orioles.
Baltimore pounded out a season-high 20 hits in a 14-1 shellacking of New York, incomes a cut up of the four-game sequence with certainly one of its finest offensive showings of the yr. The O’s additionally set their season excessive in runs, as their earlier excessive was 13 on May 4 at Kansas City.
The Orioles rallied for seven runs within the third inning and 5 within the fourth, with the previous marking their second-largest body of the yr, behind solely an eight-run seventh on May 24, which additionally occurred within the Bronx.
Henderson’s bat powered the way in which, because the 22-year-old rookie collected 4 hits, two homers, 5 RBIs and three runs scored — all by the tip of the fourth inning. Henderson’s three-run blast within the fourth gave him the primary multihomer recreation and first four-hit efficiency of his MLB profession.
Ryan O’Hearn had three hits and 4 RBIs, whereas Adam Frazier additionally contributed three hits. They have been among the many 10 Baltimore gamers to file a minimum of one hit.
It was solely the ninth time in Orioles historical past (since 1954) that the group scored 14 or extra runs in a recreation towards the Yankees. The most up-to-date prevalence had been a 14-5 win on April 8, 2014, at Yankee Stadium.
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