Judge starts 5-HR barrage to back Cole, Yanks beat O's 7-2

BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge started a five-homer barrage that backed Gerrit Cole, and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2 Tuesday night to win consecutive games for the first time since Sept. 1 and 3.

Giancarlo Stanton, Luke Voit, Joey Gallo and DJ LeMahieu also went deep for New York, which tied its season high for home runs.

“Every win is big, obviously,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “This is the fun time of the year. This is where you want to be, chasing October baseball. It’s good to get this first one here, especially after they took two out of three from us at our place.”

Cole (15-7), the AL leader in wins. returned from left hamstring tightness that cut short his Sept. 7 start against Toronto. He stranded the bases loaded in a 29-pitch first inning when he struck out Ramón Uris.

Cole allowed one run and four hits in five innings with seven strikeouts and three walks. He threw 108 pitches.

"It felt pretty good,” Cole said of the hamstring. “It was a little tough to move around with the wrap on there, but the leg responded very well.”

Judge and Gallo became just the fourth pair of teammates to hit their 34th home runs in the same game, joining Boston’s Ted Williams and Vern Stephens in 1949, Arizona’s Jay Bell and Matt Williams in 1999 and Colorado’s Carlos González and Nolan Arenado in 2015.

Judge homered hit a two-run homer in the first off a changeup from Alexander Wells (1-3). Judge is 20 for 58 with three doubles, nine homers and 15 RBIs against Baltimore this year.

Stanton hit a two-run homer in the third and Voit followed for back-to-back homers and a 5-0 lead.

“Jumping up top early is always good,” Stanton said. “A little relief even though you have to keep your foot on the gas the...

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