Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge homered, and Carlos Rodon set a career-high mark with a sterling outing on the mound as the New York Yankees defeated the host Baltimore Orioles 6-1 on Saturday night.
The Yankees (87-68) won for the seventh time in their last 10 games, keeping hopes alive in the American League East race.
Rodon (17-9) surpassed his previous top mark for victories with one more than last season. He worked seven innings, allowing one run on four hits with a walk and eight strikeouts.
The Orioles (73-82) didn’t score until Coby Mayo’s two-out double in the seventh inning. He had two of the team’s four hits.
Luke Weaver and David Bednar each pitched a shutout inning of relief without allowing a hit for New York.
Baltimore starter Tomoyuki Sugano (10-9), who hasn’t won in more than a month, took the loss. He lasted three innings, allowing four runs on six hits and one walk.
Judge, Anthony Volpe and Trent Grisham all had two hits for the Yankees, who’ve scored six or more runs in four of their last five games.
Stanton’s three-run shot with two outs in the first inning gave the Yankees an early boost a night after a frustrating game for the team in Friday night’s 4-2 loss. It marked his 21st homer of the season and the 450th of his career.
Judge smacked his 49th homer in the third inning. The lead grew with runs in the fifth and sixth innings.
The home runs were the only extra-base hits for the Yankees.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. ‘s single in the fifth drove in a run and Grisham knocked in a sixth-inning run with a single.
Jose Espada, the third reliever used by the Orioles, threw three scoreless innings in his first big-league action since 2023 when he made his debut and threw in one game for the San Diego Padres. He was called up from Triple-A Norfolk on Friday.
