Sonny Gray Records First Win Of The Season As New York Bounces Back Against Baltimore

After getting beat by Baltimore in  the first two games of this four-game series New York bounced back in game three at Yankee Stadium with right -hander Sonny Gray making the start and recording his first win of 2018.

Brett Gardner's big afternoon in the leadoff spot helped spark the Yankees, who shrugged off the previous evening's injury-marred affair and struck back at the Orioles, celebrating an 8-3 victory on Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936

Gardner reached base in all five of his plate appearances, collecting two hits, two RBIs and a run scored in support of a solid outing by starter Sonny Gray, who limited Baltimore to three runs and four hits over six innings. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads

We have a lot of guys who are kind of fighting the little injury bug right now and some things aren't going our way, but the guys that we put out there today, you can tell that they battled and put together a pretty solid game," Gray said.-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936

Aaron Judge drove in a pair of runs for New York, marking his fifth straight contest with an RBI. He knocked home the Yanks' third run with a fifth-inning groundout and chased Gardner home from first base with a do Miguel Andujar lifted a sixth-inning sacrifice fly before Austin Romine blooped a single to shallow right field that tipped first baseman Chris Davis ' glove, giving the Yankees a two-run cushion against starter Chris Tillman , who allowed five runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 frames.uble in the seventh.

Playing in front of a crowd of 34,388, Aaron Judge drove in a pair of runs for New York, knocking home their third run with a fifth-inning groundout and chasing Gardner home from first base with a double in the seventh. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936

Miguel Andujar lifted a sixth-inning sacrifice fly before Austin Romine blooped a single to shallow right field that tipped first baseman Chris Davis' glove, giving the Yankees a two-run cushion against starter Chris Tillman, who alloManny Machado continued to swing a hot bat for the Birds, knocking a two-run double, while Pedro Alvarez drilled an RBI double. Tyler Austin knocked a two-run single in the seventh to open up New York's https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936advantage.wed five runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 fraames

"It was a good day for us," Gardner said. "The first two weeks of the season maybe haven't gone how we would have drawn them up, with a couple of guys having gone down and gotten hurt, but that's the nature of the game. Our depth has been tested a little bit, but we do have good depth. We'll be all right." "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936

Manny Machado continued to swing a hot bat for the Birds, knocking a two-run double as he improved to 5-for-9 in his past two games, while Pedro Alvarez drilled an RBI double. Tyler Austin knocked a two-run single in the seventh to open up the lead for New York, which has won nine of 13 home games against the Orioles since the beginning of last season.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Jace in the place: Summoned from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after Saturday's 14-inning loss to Baltimore, Jace Peterson looked comfortable in his Yankees debut, contributing a sixth-inning running catch that saved two runs. Peterson had a good read on Alvarez's two-out liner toward the left-field corner, snaring it to freeze Gray's line and preserve the tied scorHoudini lives: Yankees manager Aaron Boone went to the bullpen after Gray's 86-pitch effort, and the skipper was back on the mound three batters later, as Chance Sisco stroked a one-out single and Trey Mancini doubled off Adam Warren. In came David Robertson, who has made a living out of wriggling free of those types of spots. Robertson froze Machado looking at a 93.3-mph cutter, then struck out Jonathan Schoop on an 85.5-mph curve.e at the time. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936

With the win New York improves to 5-4 on the regular season and is in third place behind Toronto in the American League East while Baltimore meanwhile  falls to 3-6 on the season and is in fourth place in the American League East. 

WHAT'S NEXT
Jordan Montgomery will make his second start of the season on Sunday as the Yankees complete their four-game set with the Orioles at 1:05 p.m. ET. Montgomery took a no-decision in the home opener and is 6-3 with a 3.34 ERA in 16 career starts at Yankee Stadium. "according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/brett-gardner-leads-yankees-win-over-orioles/c-271192936