NEW YORK — The Orioles' offensive output in their 2-1 loss to the New York Yankees marked their fewest runs in more than two months, when they were shut out by the Seattle Mariners on May 17 at Camden Yards.
It's not often the Orioles offense is handcuffed like it was on Monday, the lone highlight coming on Jonathan Schoop's solo homer off Ivan Nova in the third inning.
Schoop is hitting .388 over his last 25 games, and here's another sign he's starting to blossom: 42 of his 103 hits this season – roughly 41 percent – have been extra-base hits (25 doubles, one triple, 16 homers).
That is compared to just 32 extra-base hits in 86 games last season and 34 extra-base hits in 137 games in his first full big league season in 2014.
Yankees' pen is scary: The Orioles hadn't often seen the full Yankees bullpen because closer Aroldis Chapman was serving a suspension earlier in the year, but on Monday they were witness to how overpowering the Yankees relievers can be.
They already know Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller well, but they saw Chapman just twice this year before Monday. And Chapman was carrying some incredible stuff, hitting 105 miles per hour on the stadium radar gun once and hitting 104 and 103 other times.
"They're good for a reason, but they don't walk around with zero ERAs," center fielder Adam Jones said. "You've just got to try to square something up. We squared a couple balls up. J.J. [Hardy], I thought he got it off Chapman. Nolan [Reimold] lining out off Betances. Good at-bats off Miller. The double-play ball that Wieters hit, he really hit it hard but right at the guy, so there's nothing you can do about it."
Angering A-Rod: Alex Rodriguez gave Kevin Gausman a subtle glance after dodging a high-and-tight 98-mph fastball.
Gausman, who allowed a solo homer to Rodriguez in the second inning, scoffed at the notion that he was trying to bean Rodriguez, saying in his postgame MASN interview that there's no way he would try to hit someone in an 0-2 count.
Matt Wieters got up from his catcher's crouch and set up for a pitch high and outside, but Gausman's fastball seemed to tail inside to Rodriguez.
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