There was no pomp or pageantry at the Yankees’ second home game of the season Tuesday. Nor much performance, either. A day after the fun of Derek Jeter’s final home opener and a Core Four reunion, the Yanks fell flat against Baltimore in an ugly 14-5 loss in which they surrendered 20 hits.
Ivan Nova couldn’t get out of the fourth inning and Jeter couldn’t get to a ground ball up the middle in the first inning that might’ve saved the Yankees some headaches. The mood among those in the announced crowd of 35,864 at the Stadium matched the gray weather the teams played in part of the time.
Nova (1-1) allowed 10 hits and seven runs in 3.2 innings and departed to scattered boos. He struck out three and didn’t walk anyone and about the only good thing that could be said about his performance was that he extended the club’s streak of games without the starter issuing a free pass to five games.
Nova gave up consecutive singles to start the game, but one of them was a grounder up the middle by Delmon Young that Jeter perhaps should’ve fielded going to his left, but it slipped under his glove. Instead of a potential double play, the O’s had first and third and Chris Davis knocked in the first run of the game with a sac fly.
With an older infield of Jeter at short and Brian Roberts at second, infield range was one of the Yankee concerns entering the season.
Adam Jones followed with a deep drive over the center field wall, a two-run shot that was his first home run of the season. Nova recovered to strike out the next two hitters, but it was a short reprieve.
The Yankees got one run back in their half of the first when Carlos Beltran doubled in Jacoby Ellsbury. But the O’s scored in the second.
With Francisco Cervelli playing first base for the first time in his career, Ryan Flaherty tried to bunt for a hit with a man on first. Nova went for the ball but couldn’t get it and then didn’t run on to cover first. Cervelli fielded the ball cleanly, but had no one to throw it to, so Flaherty had a hit.
Nova picked off Steve Lombardozzi at second, but that, too, was a temporary solution. No. 9 hitter Jonathan Schoop followed with a double to left, scoring Flaherty.
The Orioles scored three more times in the fourth inning, knocking out Nova and taking a 7-1 lead. Their bottom three hitters helped. Baltimore’s 7-8-9 batters were a combined 6-for-6 against Nova and they started the fourth with three straight singles.
Markakis hit a sac fly and Young singled in a run, which prompted Joe Girardi to come out of the dugout to remove Nova. Cesar Cabral, brought up Tuesday to fill David Robertson’s roster spot, gave up an RBI single to Davis and then walked Jones, but retired Matt Weiters on a popup for the final out of the inning.
The Yankees scored three times in their half of the fourth to pull within three runs. Alfonso Soriano led off with a home run, his first of the year and only the second of the season by a Yankee. Yangervis Solarte hit his first of two doubles to drive in one run and Brett Gardner knocked one in with a groundout.
But the Orioles just kept on scoring. They plated four runs in the sixth inning against reliever Vidal Nuno, including a two-run homer by Young.
Wieters smacked a two-run homer off Nuno in the eighth inning, upping the Orioles’ lead to 13-4. Lombardozzi singled in a run in the same inning.
Nuno got clobbered in 3.1 innings of relief, allowing eight hits and seven runs.
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