O’s rally past Yankees, move into first place

BALTIMORE — One night after the Orioles hit a season-high seven home runs, they used some small ball in a 6-5 win over the Yankees. The victory moved Baltimore into a virtual tie for first place with the Red Sox in the American League East.

Baltimore scored four times over the sixth and seventh with just one extra-base hit. Three of those runs came in the sixth, with Matt Wieters delivering a two-run single and Jonathan Schoop scoring Mark Trumbo with the tying run on a two-out double. Adam Jones and Hyun Soo Kim led off the seventh with singles against Dellin Betances (2-3), before Jones scored the eventual winning run on a soft grounder to third by Manny Machado.

The Yankees built a 5-2 lead with Carlos Beltran, Alex Rodriguez and Austin Romine all homering. Beltran and Rodriguez went back to back during a 43-pitch fourth inning for Orioles starter Chris Tillman. Romine led off the fifth with his second home run of the season, while Chase Headley had a two-out RBI single in the sixth on Tillman’s 109th and final pitch of the game.

Tillman allowed three home runs for the second straight start after allowing three long balls over his first 10 starts of the season. Neither starter factored in the decision, with New York’s Nathan Eovaldi allowing eight hits and five runs with five strikeouts and a walk in 5 1/3 …

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