Yankees beat Orioles 5-2 to salvage finale of 3-game series

NY 1B Mark Teixeira got the day off after playing the previous night.

New York Yankees relief pitcher Dellin Betances delivers during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in Baltimore.

Bundy allowed just two singles – the third time he has allowed two hits or less in 10 starts this year.

Severino might have saved the Yankees’ season for the time being Sunday with a two-inning rescue job in a 5-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles that was a nice rebound from consecutive shutout losses at Oriole Park. It was a miserable time as the Orioles topped the Yankees by a score of 2-0.

Junior Guerra, Jacob Barnes, Blaine Boyer (2-3), Jhan Marinez, Carlos Torres, Corey Knebel and Tyler Thornburg led Milwaukee to its second win in a row following a six-game losing streak.

Asked if his team might have been flat after already clinching the series, manager Buck Showalter said, “We’re trying to win games”.

In the late innings, the Birds failed to put up much of an offensive attack together.

The Orioles stranded nine and went 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position.

But he allowed those two runs in the fourth and fifth innings that gave the Orioles control.NY did not do much early on offense as Gausman was rolling, but the Yankees loaded the bases with one out in the fourth.

– San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner struck out 10 batters in six innings while allowing just two runs to outduel Jake Arrieta and beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 and improve to 14-8 with a 2.51 ERA on the season. He struck out Steve Pearce and forced Matt Wieters to ground out and was excited, coming off the mound.

The Yanks wasn’t no time scoring in this one, as they took a 3-0 first-inning lead on Orioles left-hander Wade Miley (8-12), who got himself into a quick jam by walking the first two hitters he faced, Brett Gardner and Rob Refsnyder.

When Girardi lost faith in starter Michael Pineda after a pair of hits to start the fifth inning, a cast of five relievers pitched five scoreless innings to seal the win.

“From what I know now, it is not worst case”, Green said. “We had a great series against these guys”, Davis said. He promptly struck out a batter, but then walked two. A wild pitch and a two-run single by Austin Romine followed.

Mark Trumbo had two hits, including his major league-leading 41st home run run. The runner moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and then scored on a sacrifice fly from Gardner.

After rebuking the Toronto Blue Jays after they drafted him out of high school in the 37th round in 2010, Green went on to play at Louisville, before becoming an 11th round draft choice by the Yankees in 2013. “To be able to bounce back today is important, and it keeps us alive”.

As hard as it might be after falling back to 4.5 games of that final AL wild Card spot, don’t be angry at anyone, because this Yankees team has accomplished way more than it should have when you look back at what transpired on August 1.

Severino (2-8) pitched two strong innings of relief and Dellin Betances, the fifth NY reliever, got four outs for his eighth save. NOTES: Yankees SS Didi Gregorius has been hit in the arm twice over the series and was held out of the lineup by manager Joe Girardi.

Girardi is going to see if he uses Severino out of the bullpen the next few days before making a decision. Commenting on the ice pack Teixeira had on his neck before the game, Girardi said, “He deals with his neck, he deals with his knee”. “But if you drop all three, it’s going to make it really tough”.