POSTGAME NOTES NEW YORK YANKEES (37-23) vs. BALTIMORE ORIOLES (31-30) SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2017 R H E LOB SERIES BALTIMORE ORIOLES 3 9 1 7 0 NEW YORK YANKEES 14 15 0 8 3 STARTING TIME: 1:10 p.m. TIME OF GAME: 3:38 GAME-TIME TEMPERATURE: 89 degrees PAID ATTENDANCE: 46,348 (Sellout #5) WINNING PITCHER: Adam Warren (2-1) PITCH COUNTS (Total Pitches/Strikes): LOSING PITCHER: Kevin Gausman (3-5) Yankees: Chad Green (53/33) SAVE: None Orioles: Kevin Gausman (74/38) HOME RUNS (2017 TOTAL / INNING / RUNNERS ON BASE / OUTS / COUNT / PITCHER / SCORE AFTER HR) YANKEES ORIOLES Gary Sánchez (#10 / 1st / 2 on / 1 out / 0-1 / Gausman / NYY 5 – BAL 0) None Aaron Judge (#20 / 6th / 0 on / 1 out / 1-1 / Verrett / NYY 8 – BAL 3) Starlin Castro (#12 / 6th / 1 on / 1 out / 1-0 / Verrett / NYY 10 – BAL 3) Aaron Judge (#21 / 7th / 1 on / 1 out / 2-2 / Yacobonis / NYY 14 – BAL 3) NEW YORK YANKEES NOTES • The Yankees have won five straight games, their third winning streak of at least 5G this season (also 8G from 4/10-17 and 6G from 5/2-8)…is the Majors’ second-longest active winning streak (Colorado, seven-game winning streak entering today’s game at Chicago-NL)…are a season-high 14G over .500 (36-23), their most games over .500 since 10/2/15 (87-73 after 160 games)…recorded their fifth sweep of 2017, matching their 2016 total. • Are 22-9 (.710) at home this season, the best home record in the AL. • Have outscored opponents, 85-26, in 10 June games (+59 run differential). • Are a Major League-best 19-2 (.905) in games decided by at least 5R. • Finished 8-5 during their 13-game stretch vs. divisional opponents…have won five straight home games vs. AL East teams, are 12-3 this season, and are 31-13 since the 2016 All-Star break against the division at Yankee Stadium. • Have scored 105R in their last 12 home games vs. the Orioles since 8/26/16 (8.75 R/G), with 12R-or-more in 6-of-12…are batting .323/.416/.590 with 30HR in the 12 games. • Yankees batters tied a club record by hitting at least 3HR for the fourth consecutive game (also 4G from 7/27-30/1956, all on the road, 3HR in each game)…have hit 15HR in the four games…is tied for the sixth-longest 3HR streak in Major League history…also ties a club record for consecutive home games with at least 3HR (4G, 8/16-17 and 8/26-27/16, 3HR in each)…had 4K and 4HR. • Have five consecutive multi-HR games, their longest such streak since 6/20-25/12 (also five straight)…overall, have hit multiple homers in 8-of- 10 games this month and 30-of-60 this season. • The Yankees’ 55R in the last 5G are their highest run total over a five-game span since 7/31-8/4/07 (56R). • Have scored at least 8R in five straight games for the second time since 1939 (also 5G, 7/6-13/56)…have scored at least 14R in consecutive games for the 10th time since 1913 (first since 7/21-22/07)…are averaging 6.58 runs per game (204R/31G) at home this season. • With Gary Sánchez hitting his 10th home run of the season in the first, the Yankees now have six players with at least 10HR this season (most in MLB): Judge-21, Gardner-13, Holliday-13, Castro-12, Hicks- 10, Sánchez-10. • Scored 5R on 5H in the first inning…marked their second straight game with at least 5R in the opening frame (also 6R on Saturday) after not scoring in the first inning in any of their previous seven games…per Elias, is the first time the Yankees have tallied at least 5R in the first inning of consecutive games since a doubleheader on 8/25/1939 at the St. Louis Browns…have three first innings with at least 5R this season (also 5R on 5/6 at Chicago-NL) after doing so just once in 2016 (6R in first on 4/6/16 vs. Houston). • RF Aaron Judge (4-for-4, 4R, 1 double, 2HR, 3RBI, 1BB) recorded his third career 2HR game, all this season (5/2/17 vs. Toronto, 4/28/17 vs. Baltimore)…leads the Major Leagues with 21 home runs…tied his career high with 4R (also 4/29/17 vs. Baltimore). • Has hit 25HR in 85 career games, one of seven players in Major League history to hit at least 25HR in his first 85 games: Rudy York (31), Mark McGwire (30), José Abreu (29), Gary Sánchez (26), Wally Berger (26), Ryan Braun (25). • With 21HR, has already surpassed last year’s AL rookie HR leaders (Gary Sánchez and Nomar Mazara, 20HR each)…are the most HRs by an AL rookie since Carlos Correa hit 22HR in 2015…are tied for the fourth-highest home run total by a rookie in Yankees history: 29-Joe DiMaggio (1936), 26-Bobby Murcer (1969), 25-Joe Gordon (1938), 21-Kevin Maas (1990). • Is one of 11 players under the age of 26 to hit at least 21HR in his team’s first 60 games of a season (MLB history)…joins Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Jimmie Foxx, Ken Griffey Jr., Wally Berger, Harmon Killebrew, Rico Petrocelli, Giancarlo Stanton, Alex Rodriguez and Prince Fielder. • His sixth-inning HR went 495 feet (per MLB Statcast), the longest home run hit in the Majors this season (previously Arizona’s Jake Lamb, 481 feet)…it had an exit velocity of 118.6 mph…Judge has the only three HRs with exit velocities above 117.0 mph in the Majors this season (also 121.1 on Sat. vs. Baltimore and 119.4 on 4/28 vs. Baltimore). • Set a career high with four hits…is the fifth four-hit game by a Yankee this season (last: Aaron Hicks on 6/1 at Toronto)…at 25 years, 46 days, is the youngest Yankee to go 4-for-4 or better with 2HR since Mickey Mantle (24 years, 211 days) went 4-for-4 with 2HR on 5/18/56 at Chicago-AL. • Has a career-long 14-game on-base streak, batting .426/.530/.870 (23-for-54) with 18R, 6 doubles, 6HR, 17RBI and 12BB…has walked in a career- high six straight, 11 of his last 12 games and 15-of-19…entered the day tied for the AL lead in walks with Tampa Bay’s Steven Souza, Jr. (37). • Is hitting .475 (19-for-40) with 20R, 4 doubles, 8HR, 16RBI and 13BB in 12 games vs. the Orioles in 2017, tied for the second-most home runs by a Yankee vs. any opponent in one season in the divisional era (since 1969), trailing only Graig Nettles (10HR) in 17G vs. Cleveland in 1974. -more- • C/1B Gary Sánchez (1-for-5) hit a three-run HR in the first inning, his 10th of the season…according to MLB Statcast, went a projected 450 feet, the longest HR of his career (previously 448 feet on 5/9 at Cincinnati)…in five games since being moved into the No. 6 hole in the lineup on Wednesday, is batting .429/.478/1.095 (9-for-21) with 9R, 2 doubles, 4HR and 13RBI. • Is the fourth player in Major League history to hit at least 30HR in his first 90 career games, joining Mark McGwire (32), Rudy York (31) and José Abreu (30)…York hit his 30th career HR in his 79th game, McGwire hit it in his 84th game and Abreu hit it in his 89th game. • Sánchez and Judge have homered together in the same game four times in their careers, with the Yankees going 3-1 in those games: today (W) and yesterday (W) vs. Baltimore, 5/20/17 at Tampa Bay (L), 8/14/16 vs. Tampa Bay (W). • 2B Starlin Castro (2-for-5, 2R, 1HR, 4RBI) has homered in three consecutive games for the first time in his career…only two second basemen in Yankees history have longer streaks (both 4G): Joe Gordon (7/24-27/40) and Tony Lazzeri (5/21-24/36)…scored his 500th career run on his two-run HR in the sixth. • SS Didi Gregorius (2-for-5, 1 double) set a new career high by extending his hitting streak to 13 games, also the longest hitting streak by a Yankee this season. • 1B Chris Carter (2-for-3, 2BB) hit .400/.455/.700 (8-for-20) with 2HR and 6RBI in 6G on the homestand. • LF Brett Gardner (1-for-4, 2R, 1BB) led off the first inning with a single and is batting .396 (19-for-48) with 14R, 7 doubles, 2HR and 4BB in the first inning this season. • RHP Chad Green (2.0IP, 2H, 2ER, 1BB, 3K) made his first start of the season…went to full counts on five of his first six batters…has failed to record an out in the third inning in each of his last two Major League starts (also 1.2IP on 9/2/16 at Baltimore). • Is the sixth Yankees pitcher to start a game this season, leaving St. Louis as the only Major League team that has used just five starters…this marks the deepest into a season the Yankees have used just five starting pitchers since 1975, when Doc Medich, Catfish Hunter, Pat Dobson, Rudy May and Larry Gura started the team’s first 99 games before Tippy Martinez got the ball in the second game of a doubleheader on 7/27/75 vs.