BALTIMORE — So this is how the Yankees respond to the indignity of losing a game to the woeful Orioles, eh?
You take a game off us, we take your best player home with us.
We kid, of course. Kind of. Sort of. For now. But it wasn’t lost on anybody that a few minutes after the Orioles eked out a 5-4 win in the opener of Monday’s twi-night doubleheader at Camden Yards, a report surfaced on The Athletic that the Yankees had “increased interest” in trading for Manny Machado, Baltimore’s gifted shortstop.