BALTIMORE (AP) — If the New York Yankees must adjust on the fly to a sudden change in the schedule, there’s no team they’d rather face than the Baltimore Orioles.
Baseball’s weird season reached another level of strange Wednesday night when New York stepped in for the Miami Marlins and ruined Baltimore’s home opener, hitting three home runs to back right-hander Gerrit Cole in a 9-3 victory.
Although the circumstances surrounding this Yankees-Orioles matchup was unusual, the result was not. The Yankees beat their AL East rivals for the 17th straight time since March 31, 2019, and for the 16th successive time at Camden Yards.