The Yankees have not been no-hit since June 2003, when six Astros pitchers combined to shut New York’s vaunted offense down at the original Yankee Stadium. A late infield single on Saturday afternoon spared them from that same indignity, then Joey Gallo reached the right-field seats for a much-needed confidence boost.
Gallo snapped an 0-for-17 skid with a game-tying two-run homer in the eighth inning, but Aroldis Chapman surrendered a Pedro Severino sacrifice fly and the Yankees were unable to respond in their final turn at bat, accepting a 4-3 loss to the Orioles at Yankee Stadium.
New York was held hitless until Gleyber Torres came off the bench in the seventh inning to deliver a pinch-hit RBI single, one kicked around by second baseman Jahmai Jones. An inning later, DJ LeMahieu reached on an infield dribbler before Gallo’s homer, the slugger’s 31st of the year and sixth with the Yankees.
Baltimore starter Chris Ellis held the Yanks hitless through five innings, navigating around several well-hit balls with high expected batting averages (xBA). New York had four baserunners against Ellis – three walks and Aaron Judge’s first-inning liner that was flubbed by left fielder Ryan McKenna for an error.
That kept Jordan Montgomery on his season-long drought, as the left-hander endured his Major League-leading seventh start of four or more innings with zero run support, per YES Network. Trey Mancini scored on a fourth-inning wild pitch thrown by Montgomery, who scattered six hits over 4 2/3 innings. Montgomery is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA across his past seven starts.
The Orioles added two runs in the seventh. Jones and Cedric Mullins opened the inning with back-to-back doubles off Wandy Peralta. After a dazzling defensive play by shortstop Andrew Velazquez, Peralta surrendered a run-scoring single to Austin Hays on a tapper back in front of the mound that Peralta flipped too late to nab Mullins.
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