First Place Yankees Hit 30 Wins As Fraizer Shines

YANKEES 11 - ORIOLES 4 

The First place New York Yankees destroyed the Baltimore Orioles yet again in Camden Yards as Clint Fraizer went yard twice and drove in five as the Bombers won 11-4.

New York is now at 30 wins on the season and two games ahead of Tampa Bay in the AL East. Not bad for a team with more than a dozen key injuries, and started the season under .500.

While the month of May has been cold this year, the Yankees have been anything but. They have been hotter than a firecracker.

Against the American League's worst team, the Yankees put the game away in the first inning. Yes, I said that, the game ended in the first inning. Gary Sanchez's three-run bomb to left put the Yankees up fat 3-0 and they never looked back. The homer was Sanchez's 14th of year as he has starting to look like the guy who was a Rookie of the Year candidate three years ago.

The Yankees piled on the O's in the third when Gio Urshela double in Aaron Hicks to make it 4-0, and Fraizer hit his first homer of the night to push the lead to 6-0.

Two innings later, Fraizer went deep again, this time a three-run shot to dead center, some 411 feet away to blow the game open at 9-0.

Since coming off the Injured List on May 6, Fraizer really struggled, hitting only .209 in the month of May, so perhaps this will get him going again in a big way.

D.J. LeMahieu remains hot, collecting three hits to bump his average up to .325 on the season.

The Yankees continue their scrimmage with the Orioles tomorrow night.

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