NEW YORK -- Starlin Castro homered and drove in four runs to lead the Yankees to their third straight victory, a 7-1 decision over the division-leading Orioles on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.
Castro hit a two-run shot, his 11th, off Baltimore starter Vance Worley in the second inning and contributed a two-run double facing reliever Odrisamer Despaigne in the sixth. Jacoby Ellsbury also had a run-scoring single and Chase Headley hit a two-run homer, his ninth, in the eighth inning for the Yankees, who improved to 47-46, 6 1/2 games behind Baltimore in the American League East.
Yankees starter Nathan Eovaldi worked 5 1/3 innings of one-run, four-hit ball in his return to the rotation, but reliever Anthony Swarzak recorded the biggest outs of the evening, working out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the sixth. Swarzak retired all eight Orioles he faced.
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
'Star' search: Castro came within one of his season high with four RBIs. After the New York second baseman crushed a two-run blast into the second deck in left field, Castro then contributed the key two-run double off Despaigne in the sixth, which rolled to the wall in right field. As a bonus, Castro's double allowed the Yankees to have reliever Dellin Betances stop warming up as he prepared to enter for a third straight day.
Quiet bats: For the second game in a row, the Orioles managed just one run. With Matt Wieters (right foot), Chris Davis (virus) and Hyun Soo Kim (right hamstring, disabled list) out of the lineup, Joey Rickard's RBI double in the sixth was Baltimore's only extra-base hit. Going into the third game of the series Wednesday, the Orioles have recorded nine hits in the Bronx.
Bryan Hoch has covered the Yankees for MLB.com since 2007. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch, on Facebook and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.
Joshua Needelman is a reporter for MLB.com based in New York.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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