Baltimore Orioles: Jonathan Villar Hits For Cycle In Orioles Loss To Yankees

The Baltimore Orioles fought but lost a wild game to the New York Yankees setting multiple MLB records along the way.

In the first of seven games with the New York Yankees in the next 10 days, the Baltimore Orioles fell to the Bombers by a final score of 9-6 Monday night.

With the loss, the Orioles have now lost 10 in a row to their AL East rivals from the Bronx. However, the Orioles did not go down without a fight as at one point they erased a fight run deficit to tie the game.

The Yankees struck first blood as in the second inning Austin Romine hit a line drive home run to left field to put New York up 1-0.

Baltimore would respond in the bottom half of the third as Trey Mancini tied the game with an RBI single. The game wouldn’t stay tied for long however as the Yankees got to Gabriel Ynoa in the top of the fifth.

Breyvic Valera who played for the Orioles in 2018 burned his former team with a two-run triple, and a Jonathan Villar error allowed him to score as the Yankees took a 4-1 lead.

In the top of the sixth MLB history was made. Brett Gardner hit a solo home run which was the second home run of the game for the Yankees. With that, the Orioles became the first team in MLB history to allow multiple home runs in 10 consecutive games just a week after becoming the first team in MLB history to hit multiple home runs in 10 straight games.

If that wasn’t crazy enough more history was made two-batters later. Mike Tauchman hit a solo home run. Tauchman’s homer was the 30th by a Yankee at Camden Yards this season. That set an MLB record for the most home runs by a visiting team in a single visitors ballpark in a season.

Despite setting all kinds of bad MLB history, the Orioles did not quit. Down 6-1 the Orioles rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the sixth as Jace Peterson hit a two-run home run, Chris Davis drove in a run with a sac-fly and Villar hit a two-run home run of his home to make it a whole new ball-game.

The game would remain tied until the top of the eighth. With one man out, Brandon Hyde called on Paul Fry to face rookie left-handed first basemen, Mike Ford. It was a questionable decision as Mychal Givens had dominated in 1.1 innings of work and threw just 18 pitches, but Hyde felt the need to go lefty on lefty.

That would prove costly as Ford smashed a solo home run to right field to put New York ahead 7-6. Later in the inning, the Yankees hit yet another home run as Tauchman hit his second long-ball of the game with a two-run shot to left as the Yankees took a 9-6 lead.

Those runs would be all the Yankees needed as former Oriole Zack Britton and Aroldis Chapman closed the door in the final two frames to finish off the Orioles. However before the Orioles lost more history was made. With a one-out single in the bottom of the ninth, Jonathan Villar completed the fifth cycle in Baltimore Orioles history.

The Orioles are now 2-11 against the Yankees this year and will look to break their ten straight losing streak to the Bombers tomorrow with Asher Wojciechowski on the mound.