HR Derby in Baltimore

Yankees hit 7 HR's yesterday; that is usually enough to win a ballgame and in this case, 15-3 was a blowout

Side note: I didn't get far into this before I had to look up if a team has ever hit 7 HR's and lost.  It has happened 3 times with the most recent being the White Sox hitting 7 and losing to Toronto (all were solo shots).

Notes:

Torres hit a HR to straight away center on a 3-2 count; the power these guys have even with 2 strikes is impressive.

Frazier hit two more HR's and the impressive thing was on the first one he hit a curve out to CF as he let the ball travel deeper into the plate than when he turned on the hanging curveball the other night.  His 2nd HR was another breaking ball he yanked over the LF wall.  The man with the quick bat has hit 3 HR's in the last 2 nights and did so all on breaking balls.

Sanchez had a 3 HR night and the 2nd one was very impressive in that he jumped all over a high fastball and crushed it to LF.  Great night for Sanchez who DH'd

The Yankees played Urshela at 3rd base.  Even though he was 2-3 with a walk and a double, he doesn't seem like a great stick to me, however, he looks like he has a very smooth glove at 3rd base and I would expect that will keep Wade off the field more.  Hopefully, the stick is better than I see and the glove is solid for Urshela

Romine let one ball go off his glove for a PB and another wild pitch that he should have blocked.  Romine did hit a HR off the Oriole 2nd baseman (Alberto) who came into pitch the 9th with the game out of reach.  BTW, Alberto looks to be an excellent hitter.  he has had some very impressive AB's in these early 6 games against us.

German pitched great and if he was taken out after 6 innings and 80 pitches, as he should have been, he would not have allowed any runs and only 1 hit and 1 walk.  I thought that it was enough as he started to miss a little more in the last 2 innings and 80 pitches were enough this early.  The thinking was probably 2 more batters and then bring in Tarpley against the lefty, but teh lead was enouigh where I would have let him end on a great note.  Instead, he allowed a single and a walk before Tarpley came in and allowed German's 2 runs and one of his own.  Tarpley is very tough on lefties but needs more to get righties out right now.

Boston and Tampa won