BALTIMORE — When it comes to Yankees-Orioles, the former is in a very tough spot because the latter is not a big-league team, never mind just a bad big-league outfit.
If the Yankees lose, they get ridiculed for falling to a bad team. Beat the Orioles and that’s what is supposed to happen, even if the Yankees are missing several of their biggest stars.
On Tuesday night at Camden Yards, the Yankees didn’t have to be concerned with being laughed at because they pummeled the laughingstocks of baseball, 11-4, in front of an announced crowd of 17,389.