Yankees score record-setting win over Orioles
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 04:13:42 +0000
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Mike Tauchman hit two of New York’s five home runs in Baltimore on Monday as the Yankees’ 9-6 victory gave them Major League Baseball record with 32 homers at Camden Yards this season.
Tauchman followed a solo shot in the sixth inning with a tiebreaking homer in the eighth.
He notched the first multi-homer game of his career, with Austin Romine, Brett Gardner and Mike Ford also producing homers for New York.
Mike Tauchman hit two of New York’s five home runs. (AFP)
The Yankees notched their 13th straight victory in Baltimore – a streak that stretches back to July of last year.
Their 32 homers in 2019 at the Orioles’ ground are a single-season record for most by a visiting team in one ballpark.
The record was previously held by the Milwaukee Braves, who hit 29 homers at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field in 1957.
A good proportion of the 20,151 fans at Camden Yards were pulling for the visitors.
Orioles fans got to see Jonathan Villar become the fifth Baltimore player to hit for the cycle and first since Felix Pie on August 14, 2009.
Villar tripled in the third inning, doubled in the fifth and homered in the sixth. He completed the cycle — hitting a single, double, triple and home run in the same game — when he smacked a single to right field in the ninth.