The Yankees have truly fallen on their faces in the first two games of this pivotal series against the Red Sox. Rather than ride a wave of positive momentum coming off the back of consecutive sweeps, the Yankees first committed three errors to lose the series opener before managing a paltry three hits in their shutout loss on Friday. With the loss and a Blue Jays victory, the Yankees slip in the standings after having gained valuable ground.

Houston Astros (71-58) 10, Baltimore Orioles (59-69) 7

The Astros did all of their scoring in bunches, plating four in the third and three in the fifth and eighth. Mauricio Dubón walked and Cam Smith reached on an error to lead off the third, and after a sac bunt resulted in a throwing error and Dubón scoring, Jeremy Peña demolished a hanging curveba

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