Voit homers twice as Yankees cap DH sweep of Orioles

Luke Voit hit three-run homers in consecutive innings, Masahiro Tanaka pitched five strong innings, and the New York Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Baltimore Orioles with a 10-1 victory Friday night.

Luke Voit hit three-run homers in consecutive innings, Masahiro Tanaka pitched five strong innings, and the New York Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Baltimore Orioles with a 10-1 victory Friday night. The Yankees (24-21) swept a doubleheader for the second time this season and outscored Baltimore 16-1 in their sixth doubleheader of the season.

Baltimore (20-24) lost its third straight following a four-game winning streak that included three home wins over the Yankees last weekend. Voit hit his first homer and when he slugged a 1-2 fastball from Asher Wojciechowski into the Yankee bullpen in center field with no outs in the fourth. He tied Mike Trout for the major league lead with 16 homers when he blasted a 2-0 slider from Wojciechowski into the left field seats in the fifth.

Voit's latest homers occurred after New York scored four times in the first off Baltimore rookie Keegan Akin (0-1). The burly first baseman set a career-high with six RBIs and recorded his fifth career multi-homer game. Baltimore opened the scoring with a DJ Stewart homer in the top of the first, giving him homers in five consecutive games.

DJ LeMahieu, who reached three times, scored the first run on a fielder's choice when shortstop Jose Iglesias' throw to the plate bounced in front of catcher Chance Sisco. Gleyber Torres snapped a 1-1 tie with an RBI single, and Miguel Andujar laced a two-run double to the base of the left field wall. Tanaka (2-2) settled down after a slow beginning, allowing one run on three hits. He struck out five, walked none, and threw 91 pitches.

Tanaka allowed four of the first six hitters to reach, but after plunking Renato Nunez in the second inning, he the last 12 batters he faced, getting four strikeouts in that span. Stewart hit his sixth homer in five games and fourth against the Yankees in that span.

The Orioles mustered just six hits in the doubleheader, four in the nightcap. After blanking the Yankees in 5 1/3 innings Saturday, Akin got two outs and allowed four runs on three hits.

--Field Level Media

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