NEW YORK — Aaron Choose hit his main league-leading 58th residence run, going deep for the fifth straight recreation to assist the New York Yankees wrap up their second AL East title in three years with a 10-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday evening.
Giancarlo Stanton had 4 RBIs that included his twenty seventh homer, Alex Verdugo additionally homered and Gerrit Cole outpitched Corbin Burnes in a attainable postseason preview. Choose and Stanton homered in the identical recreation for the 14th time this yr, tying Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961 for essentially the most in Yankees historical past.
New York assured itself a first-round bye and home-field benefit in a best-of-five AL Division Sequence beginning Oct. 5.
Baltimore, which clinched a postseason berth by successful Tuesday evening’s opener of the three-game collection, shall be in a best-of-three Wild Card Sequence beginning Tuesday.
Stanton homered within the second to place the Yankees forward and hit a three-run double in a six-run sixth.
Choose hit a two-run homer within the seventh towards Bryan Baker and has 144 RBIs, essentially the most within the main leagues since Ryan Howard’s 146 in 2008. Choose matched his profession greatest by homering in 5 consecutive video games.
Making his final begin earlier than the playoffs, Cole (8-5) allowed two hits in 6 2/3 innings, struck out 5 and walked one, decreasing his ERA to three.41. He struck out Anthony Santander with a 98.1 mph fastball that ended the eighth after plate umpire David Rackley referred to as a ball on the earlier pitch, a knuckle-curve that seemed to be simply above the strike zone. Cole glared because the umpire because the pitcher walked again to the dugout.
Cole was given a standing ovation when he walked to the dugout with two outs within the seventh and tipped his cap to the group of 42,022.
Burnes (15-9) allowed two hits in 5 innings, one stroll and 9 strikeouts – together with eight on cutters. Burnes got here out after 69 pitches and is prone to begin the Orioles’ postseason opener on Tuesday. He had a 1.20 ERA in 5 September begins.
Stanton lofted a slider on the backside of the strike zone into the left-field seats after lacking badly at a slider on the prior pitch.
Austin Wells, in a 4-for-42 slide, pressured in a run when he walked with the bases loaded towards Cionel Pérez. Stanton drove the following pitch on one hop to the wall in right-center for a 5-1 lead. Stanton has 72 RBIs after hitting 6 for 18 with two doubles, two homers and eight RBIs in his final 5 video games.
Anthony Rizzo added a two-run single towards Baker.
Emmanuel Rivera hit a ninth-inning sacrifice fly for the Orioles.
UP NEXT
Orioles: LHP Cade Povich (2-9, 5.59) begins a collection opener at Minnesota on Friday, when LHP Pablo López (15-9, 4.11) shall be on the mound for the Twins.
Yankees: LHP Carlos Rodón (16-9, 3.98), 7-2 with a 2.87 ERA because the All-Star break. begins Friday’s collection opener towards Pirates RHP Jared Jones (6-8, 4.14).
