The Orioles have not inched closer and closer to a dubious major league record. They have rocketed toward it, much like the balls off their opponents’ bats that have this rebuilding club holding another infamous mark.
The New York Yankees hit three more home runs off Orioles pitching in Tuesday night’s 11-4 victory, making Baltimore the fastest club in major league history to allow 100 home runs. By doing so in 48 games, they beat the 2000 Kansas City Royals to the century mark by nine contests.
The first Bronx bomb of the night was almost predictable, with Gary Sánchez clubbing a three-run home run off David Hess three batters into the right-hander’s start a night after hitting a go-ahead shot off Mychal Givens.