NEW YORK — The Yankees’ sickening day bled into a bad Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
Their first response to reliever Jimmy Cordero being suspended for the season for breaking MLB’s domestic violence policy was poor.
Up two runs through five innings, the Yankees watched their usual-stellar bullpen blew the lead and the game.
The Orioles prevailed 6-3 after the Yanks had taken the first two of a four-game series at Yankee Stadium that ends Thursday night.
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With the Yanks leading 1-0 in the fifth inning, the game was delayed for about 15 minutes when a YES cameraman shooting in a pit next to the first-base dugout was struck in the head on a throw by Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson, who was trying for an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play.
The innocent was scary, but the cameraman, Pete Stendel, raised his right arm and gave the peace sign while he was being carted off the field to a standing ovation.
The Orioles turned the game in the sixth inning when they scored four times facing relievers Nick Ramirez and Michael King, turning a 2-0 deficit into a 4-2 lead.
The Yankees got a run back in the eighth on a leadoff homer by Anthony Volpe that made it 4-3, but Ryan O’Hearn hit a two-run homer in the ninth off Ian Hamilton to put the Orioles up three runs.
The Yanks got as much as they could ask for from rookie right-hander Randy Vasquez, who was called up from Triple-A to make a spot start and pitched five scoreless innings.
Vasquez’s pitch count was only at 75 through five, but manager Aaron Boone opted to go with Ramirez to the sixth. The lefty retired leadoff hitter O’Hearn, but two hits in a row put runners on the corners for Colton Cowser, whose first major-league hit in the third at-bat of his debut game put the O’s on the board.
After Michael King replaced Ramirez, Jordan Westburg laced a two-run triple to make it a 3-2 Baltimore. The O’s added a fourth run when Volpe threw late…
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