The Yankees opened their 2019 season with 6-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles, a team trying to find itself after a number of tough 2018 in-season moves and equally difficult Hot Stove decisions. Luke Voit’s three-run HR in the 1st inning quickly sent Baltimore’s season into despair.
The Orioles were once the beasts of the American League from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s (and the AL East when division play started in 1969.).
Future Hall of Fame members Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Cal Ripken, and Eddie Murray and stars like Dave McNally, Boog Powell, Paul Blair, and Mark Belanger led the Orioles to World Series titles in 1966, 1970 and 1983.