Orioles unravel in sloppy 11-3 loss to Yankees, drop 4th straight game

Two innings later, Gibson gave up a long ball to an even better hitter. Gibson hung a 1-0 curveball right down the middle, and Aaron Judge did what Aaron Judge does for a two-run shot to put New York up 3-1.

Aside from those two pitches, Gibson was solid, especially considering it was his first big league start and at Yankee Stadium. He is the first starting pitcher in Orioles history to make his MLB debut at Yankee Stadium — both the House that Ruth Built and the new one. Gibson walked only one batter and gave up the three runs on homers while striking out two and flashing his impressive pitch mix.

“A lot of excitement,” Gibson said of his MLB debut with his parents, JR and Karen, and friends in attendance. “Also, really grateful for everyone that’s come into my life to help me get to this spot. I had some people come here in the day, and I think the best part of the day was just being with them on the field after the game and just to be able to say, ‘Thank you.’ This is definitely a day I’m not ever going to forget.”

When Gibson was pulled, the game was tied at 3 after his offense gave him more run support than they gave Povich or Bradish in the series’ first two contests.

After the offense scored 10 runs in the first game of the Orioles’ doubleheader Thursday, the bats were no-hit through three innings in each of their next three games. It looked like that would be the case again Sunday against Yankees starter Max Fried, one of the best left-handers in baseball, and without Gunnar Henderson, who was out of the lineup for the first time this season. But third baseman Weston Wilson smacked a leadoff single and later scored to tie the game on shortstop Blaze Alexander’s bloop single.

After Judge’s homer, the Orioles tied the game in the fourth after loading the bases on an infield single from Leody Taveras and a ground-ball double play from Jeremiah Jackson, which killed the rally. The double play was the first of three that the Orioles grounded into in the defeat.

The Yankees retook the lead in the sixth inning off reliever Grant Wolfram on an infield single from Ryan McMahon on a play that Coby Mayo couldn’t make at first base.

New York then broke the game open in the eighth against reliever Andrew Kittredge on a two-run homer from Jasson Domínguez, a two-run single from Paul Goldschmidt, a sacrifice fly from Grisham and a poor defensive play by Mayo after he moved over to third base. Mayo tried to field a bunt that was going foul, which gave José Caballero an infield single and loaded the bases with no outs.

The merry-go-round continued when the Orioles brought in left-hander Dietrich Enns, who gave up a sacrifice fly to Jazz Chisholm Jr. and an RBI double to Domínguez for runs charged to Kittredge. The veteran righty allowed seven hits and seven runs while recording only one out.

“Hard to say,” Kittredge said about what went wrong. “A lot of balls weren’t hit that hard, just kind of got baseballed a little bit, some of those ground balls finding holes. I’m not going to sit here and pretend I threw the ball really well. I definitely don’t think it was as bad as it looked. It’s one of those things where some balls find some holes, ball gets out that’s probably a home run in this park only, just kind of one of those days, unfortunately. Doesn’t look good.”

Mayo’s miscues were two of several from the Orioles’ infield on a rough day defensively. The Orioles are one of five MLB teams to have negative defensive runs saved (minus-2) and outs above average (minus-7), ranking in the bottom 10 in both.

“Yeah, definitely disappointing,” Albernaz said. “Like we keep on saying, we can’t give another team [more than] 27 outs, especially [the] Yankees and their lineup. We got to convert those outs all the time, not just today. We got to do it all the time.”

The Orioles will hope to prevent a sweep Monday night with Shane Baz on the mound opposite Yankees flamethrower Cam Schlittler.

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