In an unusual season, the New York Yankees met with the Baltimore Orioles in at a last-minute replacement game that was supposed to pit the Phillies against the Yankees; they meet instead with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. Last season’s MVP DJ LeMahieu leading the Yankees going 4 for 5 and Aaron Judge coming alive. Those are the headlines in a game the Yankees won 9-3.
Oh, did I say Gerrit Cole showed his stuff going 6.2 innings and 102 pitches, giving up only three runs, again without his best stuff? Meanwhile, across baseball, the Red Sox were winning over the crosstown Mets, and the Astros were doing an exercise in the new rule man on 2nd after nine until Mookie Betts broke it open in the eleventh for Los Angeles, for the Dodger win.