O's hitters set club record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game with loss to Yankees

Orioles hitters got dominated today by New York right-hander Michael Pineda. Meanwhile, Bud Norris was knocked out in the fourth inning. That was not a good combination for the Orioles, who lost 6-2 to the Yankees. In winning three of four in this series, New York won its first series against the Orioles since Sept. 9-12, 2013.

The Orioles lost for the fifth time in six games to fall to 7-12 on the road and 13-16 for the season.

Pineda struck out 16 Orioles over seven innings without a walk. He gave up one run on six hits in improving to 5-0 with an ERA of 2.72.

Pineda is the first pitcher with a 16-strikeout, no-walk game since Johan Santana on Aug. 19, 2007. No Yankees pitcher had ever done that. Pineda's 16 strikeouts ties for the second-most in a game by a Yankees pitcher. Ron Guidry fanned 18 on June 17, 1978. Pineda's 16 strikeouts are the most ever against the Orioles in a nine-inning game.

Pineda, who struck out at least two batters in every inning he pitched today, has fanned 25 Orioles in two starts over 13 1/3 innings this year. He is 3-0 with an ERA of 2.56 in six career starts against the Orioles.

The Orioles also struck out twice against reliever Dellin Betances and their 18 strikeouts set a dubious club record for a nine-inning game. The previous mark of 17 happened three times, most recently on Sept. 21, 1998.

The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the second on J.J. Hardy's solo homer off a 2-2 Pineda slider. It was Hardy's first homer since Aug. 31, 2014 against Minnesota. Hardy went 2-for-3 and was the only Oriole to not strike out against Pineda. He is 6-for-11 with three career homers against the right-hander. Down 6-1 in the eighth, Adam Jones singled in a run. It scored Jimmy Paredes, who went 2-for-4, has a nine-game hitting streak and is batting .355 for the season.

New York scored four in fourth to take the lead on a Carlos Beltran solo homer, a Didi Gregorius single and a two-run double by Jacoby Ellsbury that went over the head of Alejandro De Aza in left when he initially broke in on the ball. The Yankees added runs on Brian McCann's homer in the fifth and Gregorius' double in the seventh.

Norris went 3 1/3 innings, allowing six hits and four runs with three walks and two strikeouts. He threw 98 pitches and is now 1-4 with an ERA of 9.88 in six starts.

Now the Orioles head home to begin a nine-game homestand tomorrow night against Toronto when Ubaldo Jimenez (2-2, 2.36 ERA) pitches against Marcus Estrada (1-1, 2.93 ERA).