{"id":690603,"date":"2026-05-05T02:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/690603\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:51:24","slug":"judges-big-league-high-14th-homer-sparks-yankees-over-orioles-12-1-for-sweep-14th-win-in-16-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/690603\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge’s big league-high 14th homer sparks Yankees over Orioles 12-1 for sweep, 14th win in 16 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge<\/a> put New York ahead in the first inning with his major league-leading 14th home run as part of a four-RBI night, and the Yankees<\/a> routed the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> 12-1 on Monday for a four-game sweep and their 14th win in 16 games.<\/p>\n

Judge drove a hanging, full-count knuckle-curve from Shane Baz<\/a> (1-3) into the Yankees bullpen in right-center for a 2-0 lead and added a two-run single in a six-run eighth off Lou Trivino<\/a>, who made his Orioles debut.<\/p>\n

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Judge leads the majors with six first-inning homers this year and has 91 in his career, trailing only Babe Ruth\u2019s 126 and Mickey Mantle\u2019s 103 among Yankees. The home run was Judge’s 53rd in 124 games against the Orioles.<\/p>\n

Cody Bellinger<\/a> had three RBIs, including a two-run triple off Trivino.<\/p>\n

AL-best New York (24-11) moved a season-high 13 games over .500, outscoring the Orioles 39-10 in the series.<\/p>\n

Baltimore (15-20) lost its fifth straight, dropping a season-worst five games under .500. Adley Rutschman<\/a> made the final out, dropping to 1 for 17 in the series.<\/p>\n

Cam Schlittler<\/a> (5-1) won his third straight start, allowing one run and seven hits in 5 2\/3 innings. He forced in a run with a bases-loaded walk to Colton Cowser<\/a> in the sixth.<\/p>\n

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Schlittler threw 21 pitches 100 mph or faster \u2014 15 more than his total in 21 previous big league starts.<\/p>\n

Baz gave up six runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 in 5 2\/3 innings. Weston Wilson<\/a>, an infielder and outfielder, went to the mound to get the final out of the eighth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Orioles: RHP Chris Bassitt<\/a> (2-2, 5.46 ERA) starts Tuesday at Miami<\/a>, which sends RHP Sandy Alcantara<\/a> (3-2, 3.04) to the mound.<\/p>\n

Yankees: RHP Elmer Rodr\u00edguez (0-1, 4.50) makes his second big league start, against Texas<\/a> RHP Jacob deGrom<\/a> (2-1, 2.01).<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge put New York ahead in the first inning with his major league-leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106,1079,47,5,20455,82,1365,1125,403,2169,778,4,3480,5144,1567,1362,15448,142],"class_list":["post-690603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-colton-cowser","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-lou-trivino","tag-miami","tag-mlb","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-shane-baz","tag-texas","tag-the-orioles","tag-weston-wilson","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116519703929369933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}