Orioles' Bats Silenced In 13-1 Yankees Rout
NEW YORK (AP) — Luis Gil pitched six scoreless innings in his major league debut, Giancarlo Stanton homered and drove in four runs, and the New York Yankees routed the Baltimore Orioles 13-1 on Tuesday night.
Gil (1-0) started in place of All-Star ace Gerrit Cole, who was put on the COVID-19 injured list before the game after testing positive for the virus Monday.
The 23-year-old right-hander did a good impression of the Yankees ace, allowing just four singles. He struck out six and walked only one.
After allowing a pair of two-out hits in the fourth inning, Gil got DJ Stewart to fly out. Gil, who went 4-1 in 15 combined starts in Double-A and Triple-A, retired the side in the fifth and then froze Austin Hays with a slider on the outside corner to end the sixth inning with two runners aboard.
Gil was just the eighth Yankees pitcher to throw six or more scoreless innings in his major league debut after Slow Joe Doyle (1906), King Brockett (1907), Tacks Neuer (1907), Pete Wilson (1908), Russ Van Atta (1933), Vito Tamulis (1934) and Sam Militello (1992).
After Gil exited, Yankees relievers Stephen Ridings and Brody Koerner also made their big league debuts. Ridings' first pitch was clocked at 100.9 mph and he struck out three while allowing a hit in the seventh. Koerner went two innings, giving up a run and two hits.
Gil, Ridings and Koerner became just the second trio of Yankees pitchers to make their major league debuts in the same game, after Lew Burdette, Dave Madison and Ernie Nevel against Washington on Sept. 26, 1950.
Gleyber Torres hit an RBI double in the second off Alexander Wells (1-2).
The Yankees scored five times in the third. Anthony Rizzo kept up his surge since joining the team last week with a single, and a run scored on the play when the throw back in from center fielder Cedric Mullins ricocheted off the second base bag and caromed toward first.
Stanton's three-run homer, his 17th of the season, made it 9-0 in the fourth.
Aaron Judge added his 22nd homer in the eighth.
SCAT CAT
A day after an elusive cat scooted around the outfield for almost four minutes and delayed the game in the eighth inning before darting through a gate, there was no sign of the tabby. The Yankees said before the game that the cat hadn't been seen since it left the field and ran away.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Orioles: SS Richie Martin made his season debut for Baltimore as a defensive replacement in sixth inning. It was Martin's first game since 2019 due to fractures in both wrists.
Yankees: INF Gio Urshela (left hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day injury list. The move is retroactive to Aug. 1. … Cole and LHP Jordan Montgomery were added to the COVID-19 injured lists. …New York purchased the contract of Koerner from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. … Ridings had his contract purchased from Triple-A and was added as a replacement player. … Gil was added as a replacement place from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. … OF Jonathan Davis was claimed off waivers from Toronto. He hit .143 (10 for 70) in 52 games with the Blue Jays this season.
UP NEXT
Matt Harvey (6-10, 6.20) looks to extend his 18 1/3 scoreless inning streak when he starts the series finale for the Orioles on Wednesday. Harvey has won his last three starts. Taillon (7-4, 4.11) will start for Yankees.
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