Aaron Judge steps in to break off wild bench-clearing Orioles-Yankees fight amid rivalry

The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles were progressive successful a immense on-field scrap connected Friday night, arsenic Aaron Judge stepped successful to break up teammates from opponents.

The Yankees captain, who's 6-ft 7 and weighs 286lbs, was seen successful nan mediate of nan bench-clearing brawl successful nan ninth inning of his team's 4-1 triumph astatine Camden Yards. 

The conflict started aft a nasty transportation from teammate and reliever Clay Holmes deed nan caput of outfielder, Heston Kjerstard, astatine bat.

Orioles' head Brandon Hyde led nan complaint arsenic he stormed onto nan section aft nan play, which took spot pinch nan Yankees having 1 retired connected nan committee successful nan inning. 

The dugouts emptied and location was immoderate pushing and shoving, arsenic seen successful viral video connected X. 

Hyde was ejected, and Holmes sewage a grounder and a strikeout to complete his 21st save. 

For his part, Judge had a memorable nighttime successful nan matchup of AL East Division front-runners, arsenic he yet homered successful nan 3rd inning. 

His majors-leading 33rd location tally was his first agelong shot successful 9 games arsenic nan teams opened a three-game series.   

The Yankees won for only nan sixth clip successful their past 21 games, but it was capable to propulsion them wrong a crippled of first-place Baltimore.

The Orioles person mislaid 4 games successful a statement and will extremity up pinch a losing people for nan six-game homestand aft getting swept by nan Chicago Cubs earlier successful nan week.

Baltimore batters went 1-for-9 pinch runners successful scoring position, extending their three-game people successful that class to 1-for-25.

Yankees starting pitcher Garrit Cole (2-1) was making only his 5th commencement of nan play aft spending nan first two-and-a-half months connected nan injured list. 

He constricted Balitmore to 1 tally connected 5 hits pinch 7 strikeouts and 1 locomotion successful his longest commencement of nan season. 

Tommy Kahnle, Luke Weaver each worked an inning starring to Holmes. Orioles rookie Cade Povich (1-4) surrendered 3 runs and 5 hits successful 5 1/3 innings. He issued 5 walks, but nary of those baserunners ended up scoring.