Orioles getting historic again with home runs (O's win 8-0)

The Orioles like to hit home runs and they tend to increase their chances of winning when it happens.

Baseball is a simple game. Stop trying to complicate it.

Pedro Alvarez, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo homered in the second inning, the Yankees lost their starting pitcher to injury and the Orioles built a 6-0 lead against their division rivals.

The Orioles have lost five straight division series, a streak they'll try to end this weekend.

Chad Green exited with right elbow pain after walking Manny Machado with two outs in the second and will be examined further in Baltimore. He already surrendered a two-out RBI bloop single to Adam Jones and Alvarez's two-run shot onto Eutaw Street, measured by Statcast at 424 feet.

Alvarez pulled an earlier pitch foul down the right field line. Jones already had rounded second base, his hamstring apparently fine.

He was able to trot around them two pitches later.

"Adam won't be 100 percent again until the offseason," said manager Buck Showalter. "You can say that about everybody."

The Orioles, coming off a 13-16 August and now tied for the second wild card, are trying to get healthy against the Yankees.

Nick Goody replaced Green and wasn't so good. Davis and Trumbo greeted him with home runs to increase the lead to 6-0, the 17th time this season that the Orioles have gone back-to-back.

Alvarez homered onto Eutaw Street for the second time, also doing it on May 8 versus the Athletics. It's happened 88 times in the ballpark's history, with 40 of them coming from the Orioles, who have done it six times in 2016.

The Orioles have six players with 20 or more home runs for the first time since 1996 - Trumbo, Davis, Jones, Alvarez, Machado and Jonathan Schoop. They're the 19th team in major league history with at least six players reaching the mark, the last being the 2010 Blue Jays, who had seven players.

Jones singled twice in the first two innings in his return to the lineup. He struck out to end the third.

Three innings and three at-bats for the Orioles' leadoff hitter. The Yankees didn't draw it up this way.

Dylan Bundy allowed a single and walked a batter in the first inning, but didn't surrender a run. Matt Wieters picked off Brett Gardner after a leadoff single.

Bundy retired the side in order in the second and stranded two runners in the third by striking out Gary Sanchez. He's struck out four batters and thrown 59 pitches in three innings.

Update: Machado joined the power party in the fourth inning with a two-run shot off Kirby Yates to give the Orioles an 8-0 lead.

Update II: The Orioles defeated the Yankees 8-0 before 24,226 at Camden Yards, their sixth shutout of the season.

Bundy allowed two hits in 5 2/3 scoreless innings. Donnie Hart retired all four batters he faced and Vance Worley retired the side in order in the eighth.

Tommy Hunter worked the ninth and also retired the side in order, as the Orioles held the Yankees to two hits.

The Orioles are 73-61 overall and 44-24 at home.