Germán’s 2nd straight win, Frazier’s 1st homer lifts Yanks

<p>BALTIMORE &mdash; Domingo Germán won his second straight start, combining with Michael King on a four-hitter, and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-0 Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Mike Ford put the Yankees ahead in the second inning with his second home run in 16 at-bats this season, an opposite-field drive to left, and cleanup hitter Gio Urshela made it 5-0 with a three-run homer in the four-run third.</p>
<p>Four innings after making a baserunning blunder, Clint Frazier hit his first home run in 69 plate appearances this season, capping the scoring in the eighth with a drive off Tyler Wells.</p>
<p>New York has won five of seven and at 11-13 is two games .under .500 for the first time since the Yankees were 5-7. The Yankees scored their most runs since getting a season-high eight on April 11 and pitched their second shutout this season — both have come against the Orioles.</p>
<p>Baltimore fell to 3-10 at home this season.</p>
<p>Germán (2-2), who missed the 2020 season while serving a domestic violence suspension, beat Cleveland on April 22 for his first victory in 587 days and won his second straight start, lowering his ERA to 4.05. </p>
<p>He allowed three hits and a walk in seven innings with six strikeouts. Germán didn’t yield a hit until Ryan Mountcastle’s infield single with two outs in the fifth and didn’t allow a runner to reach second until two outs in the seventh, a threat ended when he struck out Mountcastle.</p>
<p>It was Germán’s longest outing since a seven-inning effort on Aug. 13, 2019 — the last time he faced Baltimore.</p>
<p>A day after he was recalled from the alternate training site, King finished and the 25-year-old right-hander improved to 11 shutout innings this season.</p>
<p>Dean Kremer (0-2), recalled earlier in the day from Baltimore’s alternate training site, allowed six runs and 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out four.</p>
<p>Gleyber Torres had an RBI single in the third and Aaron Hicks a sacrifice fly in the fifth.</p>
<p>AL batting champion DJ LeMahieu had his 88th multihit game for the Yankees.</p>
<p>THROWN OUT</p>
<p>Frazier became the 13th Yankee thrown out on the bases — in the season’s 24th game — when he was tagged out at third. That matched New York’s total from all of last year’s 60-game season.</p>
<p>JUDGE-MENT CALL</p>
<p>Yankees manager Aaron Boone said RF Aaron Judge is “is just a little banged up on the trip in a number of areas in the lower body.” Boone defended his lack of specifics “because I think there’s multiple minor things that pop up that I don’t think it’s really necessary at times to go into. There’s times when it is absolutely clearly is specific. There’s other times when it’s a little bit gray and it’s a little bit of wear and tear, so that’s what I leave it at.” Boone hoped Judge would play Thursday and said LHP Wandy Peralta probably would be available Thursday following the trade from San Francisco on Tuesday.</p>
<p>TRAINER’S ROOM</p>
<p>Orioles: Manager Brandon Hyde said OF Anthony Santander (sprained left ankle) is improving but has yet to begin baseball activities. Santander was injured April 20 at Miami. “It’s a two-to-four-week injury, and I’m assuming it’s going to be more like four weeks,” Hyde said.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Yankees: LHP Jordan Montgomery (1-1, 4.57 ERA), who is 3-1 with a 2.51 ERA in eight starts against Baltimore, goes Thursday.</p>
<p>Orioles: RHP Jorge López (1-3, 8.15), who surrendered four runs in 4 2/3 innings in an April 5 loss to the Yankees in the Bronx, faces New York again in the finale of the four-game series.</p>
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