The Yankees throw 4 circuits, and the Orioles, last places, open the double | Quick reaction

NEW YORK — The Yankees were not their usual force this spring with most of their big bats on the shelf, but they lost their muscles after two days of rest.

Short-shot Gleyber Torres launched two of the team's four home runs – all solo – while the Yankees beat the Orioles, who play in a basement, 5-3, and played in the first match. Wednesday's doubles match at Yankee Stadium after two consecutive play-offs. the week.

The second part will begin around 5:50 pm. Right-handed Domingo German (7-1, 2.70) will leave for the Yankees while Baltimore will go against right-handed Andrew Cashner (4-1, 4.25).

The win in Game 1 put the Yankees inside a half-game of the Rays for first place in the East American League before the home series of this weekend with Tampa Bay. The Rays will try to sweep a two-game series against the Marlins, the MLB's worst player on Wednesday in Miami, while the Yankees will close this abbreviated series against the Orioles.

Receiver Gary Sanchez and right-handed Cameron Maybin also scored home runs this afternoon to help the Yankees defeat early South Paw JA Happ's 5-1 to win the victory and move to 3-3 the season.

Happ had allowed two points or fewer in three of his last four starts on Wednesday, but the Orioles have touched him in the first four innings with points at right-hand player Trey Mancini's home and away from home. 39, named striker Renato Nuñez, both solo.

Happ missed the first lead the Yankees (25-16) gave him by yielding at home in Nuñez in the fourth inning, but he managed to make the second goal – via Torres's second run and a RBI single from left field player Mike Tauchman. score the third goal, Gio Urshela, as a result of a three-goal Mancini error in the lower half of the sleeve – stand.

Happ dropped a single to start the fifth inning, but got a double play afterwards and withdrew the last three batters he faced before being relieved for reliever Adam Ottavino, with a withdrawal in the sixth. He allowed five hits, took out three hits, and did not step on 62 courts. Ottavino combined with Tommy Kaehnle and Zach Britton for a 3 2/3 win over a shutout with five strikeouts before Chapman scored his 10th stop of the season in the ninth, but not after allowing the Orioles to score the goal plate.

Sanchez tied the match at 1 in the bottom of the first goal and made a mammoth shot after the Mancini circuit in two sets. Torres and Maybin then hit a pair of home runs late in the second after Baltimore (14-27) took a 2-1 lead over RBI doubled by catcher Austin Wynns.

David Hess (1-5) took the defeat for the Orioles, allowing the five points (four earned) on six hits in six innings with six strikeouts and one strike.

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