Yankees win 19th straight over Orioles, 6-5 win in Game 1

BALTIMORE (AP) — Miguel Andújar singled in the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning, and the New York Yankees ran their winning streak against the Baltimore Orioles to 19 games with a 6-5 victory Friday in the opener of a doubleheader.

Gary Sanchez homered and Brett Gardner drove in two runs for the Yankees, who have won 18 in a row at Camden Yards — tied for the second-longest road streak in major league history by one team against another. The record is 19, by Brooklyn at Cincinnati from 1947-49.

Recalled from New York's alternate site before the game, Andújar entered as a pinch runner in the seventh and stayed in the game at third base. His single to right against Travis Lakins Sr. (2-2) made it 5-4, and Clint Frazier followed with an RBI single.

Jonathan Holder (2-0) worked the eighth and Chad Green got three outs for his first save. Holder ran for himself after New York burned the designated hitter and scored on Andújar's single.

Facing the Orioles probably couldn't have come at a better time for the Yankees, who had lost three of four and 10 of 14. The latter slide followed a 16-6 start and dropped New York out of first place in the AL East.

Cedric Mullins hit a leadoff homer for the Orioles, who erased a three-run deficit behind long balls by Rio Ruiz and Renato Núñez.

Thomas Eshelman started for Baltimore as a late replacement for Alex Cobb, who was placed on the injured list before the game for undisclosed reasons. Eshelman gave up a second-inning homer to Sanchez and exited during New York's three-run third, when the Yankees used an error, a two-run single by Gardner and a bases-loaded walk to go up 4-1.

A two-run homer by Ruiz in the fourth got Baltimore within a run, and Núñez tied it in the fifth with a solo shot off Ben Heller.

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