Orioles unravel in sloppy 11-3 loss to Yankees, drop 4th straight game
NEW YORK — In the first two games of the series, the New York Yankees took early leads over the Baltimore Orioles and looked like the far better team throughout the entire game. On Sunday, the Yankees waited until the eighth inning to prove that fact. The Orioles played sloppy defense and couldn’t get the big hit, but they were down only one run in the late innings.
That is, until the Yankees pummeled Baltimore’s bullpen for seven runs in the eighth to hand the Orioles an 11-3 loss. “We just couldn’t stop the bleeding that inning,” manager Craig Albernaz said. The defeat is Baltimore’s season-worst fourth straight after it got back to .
500 on Thursday. The Orioles are 15-19 — a season-low four games below . 500 — and are a loss Monday away from being swept in a four-game series by the American League-best Yankees (23-11).
“A lot of different things,” catcher Adley Rutschman said when asked what’s causing the team’s rut. “We gotta keep ourselves in some closer ball games to be able to give ourselves an opportunity to win. There’s not a lot of lack of effort on our team.
Guys come out every day and do what they can. But tomorrow’s a new day. ” The lone slight positive of the afternoon was Trey Gibson, the Orioles’ No.
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