Yankees bats held in check, Will Warren can't keep Orioles grounded in 4-3 loss

The Yankees fell behind early and rallied late, but couldn’t punch through, leaving nine runners on base and going 3-for-11 with runners in scoring position in a 4-3 loss to the Orioles on Monday night in Baltimore.

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Yankees bats held in check, Will Warren can't keep Orioles grounded in 4-3 loss

The Yankees fell behind early and rallied late, but couldn’t punch through, leaving nine runners on base and going 3-for-11 with runners in scoring position in a 4-3 loss to the Orioles on Monday night in Baltimore.

The O's entered the game with one win in their last seven games and losers of three straight to improve to 11-17 on the year. New York fell to 17-12. Baltimore entered the game 6 for their last 60 with RISP, and went 1-for-7 in those situations, with the lone knock proving to be the difference.

Here are the takeaways...

- Will Warren was greeted by a Cedric Mullins single to center and a Gunnar Henderson double to left-center gap to put two in scoring position in the first. But the young righty got Adley Rutschman to pop out, Ryan O’Hearn swinging on a fastball, and Ryan Mountcastle swinging on a sweeper. 

Warren got the first two in the second, before Jackson Holliday cracked a single. He came around to score the game’s first run when Ramón Laureano drove a ball over Trent Grisham’s head in center. The double made it six hard-hit balls of at least 98 mph off Warren in the first nine batters.

Warren was the architect of trouble in the third as he walked the first two batters and left a 3-2 sweeper over the middle of the plate that O’Hearn pulled over the wall in right for a three-run shot. He bounced back to strike out the side. 

The righty was pounding the zone – throwing first-pitch strikes to 16 of 18 batters – but a one-out double by Laureano down the third base line in the fourth ended his night.

- Some sloppy defense hurt the Yanks’ 25-year-old starter. On the first double, Grisham got a terrible jump and was twisted around by the 380-foot liner that had a 95 percent catch probability, per Statcast. Warren also had Laureano picked off second in the fourth, but the ball came out of Oswald Peraza’s glove at third on the tag.

Warren’s final line: 3.1 innings, four runs, six hits, two walks, five strikeouts on 72 pitches (47 strikes).

- Aaron Judge had a pair of softly hit singles his first two times up, the first dumped into left and the second just past the outstretched glove of Baltimore’s shortstop. He now has 45 hits on the year, but went down swinging on a splitter from Orioles starter TomoyukiSugano his third time up.

Judge had a big chance with one out in the seventh and runners on the corners, but he bounced a ball to third and beat the relay throw at first to score a run on the groundout. The reigning MVP was up against Baltimore's 6-foot-7 closer Felix Bautista with one out in the ninth and went down swinging on a splitter. He finished 2-for-5 with two strikeouts.

- Anthony Volpe, on his 24th birthday, had a bases-loaded chance with two down in the first, but grounded out to short. He grabbed an RBI double into the corner with one down in the eighth to finish 1-for-4.

- Austin Wells was hitless in three at-bats with a strikeout before he notched an RBI double to make it a one-run game in the eighth. 

- Paul Goldschmidt struck out swinging with two on and one out in each of his first two at-bats, on a four-seam fastball in the first and on a splitter in the third by Sugano. His third time up, he smoked a high fastball in the fifth, but Mullins made a leaping grab in center to steal a potential two-run dinger for a 402-foot out to save the O’s starter. He singled to center his first at-bat against the bullpen to finish 1-for-4.

- Jazz Chisholm Jr., plunked his first time up, swung through a splitter to strand two in the third. He finished 0-for-3 with three strikeouts.

- Jasson Domínguez singled in the fourth, but struck out three times swinging, including for the second out in the eighth with a runner on second. 

- Grisham went 2-for-5 with a strikeout, grabbing a hit with a RISP, but didn’t get an RBI as Oswaldo Cabrera got a bad jump from second. Cabrera, who singled in the seventh, tapped out to third to end the eighth.

- Cody Bellinger walked and singled his first two trips, but finished 1-for-4 with a strikeout to end it.

- Ryan Yarbrough was first out of the bullpen and issued a walk, but got Henderson swinging on a nasty sweeper and Rutschman to fly out. Pitching on six days' rest, the lefty looked fresh, retiring eight straight with three strikeouts on 41 pitches. 

He allowed a pair of singles in the seventh, but a double-play ball meant he was never in danger. Yarbrough kept the Yanks in the game and saved the rest of the bullpen after Sunday’s doubleheader. His final line: 3.2 innings, two hits, one walk, three strikeouts.

- Devin Williams, who recently lost his role as closer, started the bottom of the eighth with a strikeout on a nasty changeup below the zone and needed 14 pitches (nine strikes) for a 1-2-3 inning.

Game MVP: Orioles starter Tomoyuki Sugano

The 35-year-old MLB debutant held the Yankees in check despite giving up some traffic in his five innings of work, stranding seven runners after allowing five hits and a walk. The right-hander, who had just nine strikeouts entering the game) tallied eight. Sugano got nine whiffs on 12 splitters.

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