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        <title><![CDATA[Aaron Judge’s HR in ninth leads Yankees to 18th straight over O’s]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BALTIMORE — So far in this bizarro baseball season, there’s been a four-month shutdown due to a pandemic and labor dispute, followed by countless rule changes and a constantly changing schedule.</p><p>But one thing has remained the same: The Yankees can’t seem to lose to the Orioles.</p><p>Even after blowing a five-run lead and seeing the Orioles hit a go-ahead homer in the bottom of the eighth, Aaron Judge delivered a blast of his own to save the Yankees in an 8-6 win.</p><p>It was the Yankees’ 18th straight victory over the Orioles — and 17th in a row at Camden Yards.</p><p>But this one didn’t come easily.</p><p>Luke Voit’s grand slam helped give the Yankees a 5-0 lead in the first, but J.A. Happ, who struggled with home runs a year ago, gave up a pair of two-run homers in his first outing of the season.</p><figure id="attachment_16064325"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Aaron-Judge-11.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Aaron-Judge-11.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Aaron-Judge-11.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Aaron Judge looks up to the sky after belting a game-winning three-run homer in the ninth inning of the Yankees&#8217; 8-6 win over the Orioles on Thursday night.</span><span class="credit">Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>The first was to Hanser Alberto in the first and Rio Ruiz hit another in the second.</p><p>The Yankees had a chance to add to their lead in the eighth when Giancarlo Stanton, who finished 3-for-4, continued his torrid start with a one-out walk and Aaron Hicks ripped a double. But Voit whiffed and Gary Sanchez, still searching for his first hit of the season, did the same to end the threat.</p><p>Still, after a shutout inning from Adam Ottavino and two scoreless frames from Jonathan Loaisiga, the Yankees were five outs away from another win when Pedro Severino took Loaisiga deep for another two-run shot in the bottom of the eighth.</p><p>The Yankees didn’t trail for long.</p><p>Gio Urshela started the top of the ninth with a walk and moved to second on DJ LeMahieu’s one-out single to right.</p><p><iframe frameborder="no" height="200" scrolling="no"  width="100%" data-src="https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=ADL3740437463&#038;light=true" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="></iframe></p><p>That’s when Judge, who hit his first homer of the year on Wednesday, came up to face the overmatched Cole Sulser and deposited a 3-1 pitch into the left-field seats.</p><p>Zack Britton came on to close it with a scoreless ninth for his second save of the year in a game that was delayed for 94 minutes by rain before the bottom of the sixth.</p><p>The Yankees have won three in a row — with two games that weren’t played against the Phillies to start this week due to coronavirus concerns — as they head into Friday’s home opener versus the Red Sox.</p><p>They certainly seem capable of pounding their way to the postseason — if the season gets that far — but they would no doubt like to see more from the 37-year-old Happ.</p><p>He allowed four runs in four innings and gave up the two home runs. A year ago, he permitted a career-high 34 homers.</p><p>While Gerrit Cole has been stellar in his first two outings, James Paxton lasted just one-plus inning in his season debut, but with a bullpen as solid as the Yankees, they don’t need a dominant rotation.</p><p>Still, with Luis Severino out for the season following Tommy John surgery, they’ll need more than Cole and Masahiro Tanaka.</p><p>But it’s clear the lineup is as good as advertised, with Stanton reaching base four more times and Judge healthy after missing much of spring training with a fractured rib and punctured lung he suffered last season.</p><p>They’ll outslug plenty of opponents — especially if they get to play the likes of the Orioles more often.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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