The 24-65 Orioles, on pace for 118 losses, carried a six-game losing streak into their matchup against the 58-29 New York Yankees. They sent converted reliever Jimmy Yacabonis to the mound for just his second major league start against CC Sabathia, carrier of a 3.02 ERA. You could be forgiven for not having a ton of confidence in the Orioles to pull out this win.
As they say: that’s why they play the games.
The game began, as you might have expected, with the Yankees taking the lead. It happened, as you also might have expected, with large man Giancarlo Stanton hitting a ball very hard.