Andújar sends Yanks to 19th straight over O's

There’s no place like home, but for the Yankees, Baltimore is a close second.

The Yankees won their 19th straight game against the Orioles, grinding out a 6-5, extra-innings win in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader.

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It also marked New York’s 18th consecutive win at Camden Yards, extending the franchise’s longest road winning streak against a single opponent and matching the longest such streak by an American League team in the modern era.

Miguel Andújar, called up earlier in the day from the alternate training site after Gio Urshela landed on the injured list, drove in the game-winner in the ninth.

“It's not easy right now for us,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Proud of the guys for continuing to grind away and find a way. Did a lot of things a little unconventional today, but really good to go out and grab that first one.”

Jonathan Holder, who worked out of a jam in the eighth, scored the winning run when the Yankees -- having lost their DH an inning earlier -- were forced to run the pitcher at second base to open the ninth.

“Holder said that he actually felt like he was part of the team because he was able to actually do something,” said starter Michael King. “Him getting the 'W' and scoring the game-winning run is really cool.”

Playing their fourth doubleheader in a 10-day span, the Yankees fell behind quickly as Cedric Mullins launched a leadoff homer off King.

Gary Sánchez tied the game with a solo shot in the second against Thomas Eshelman, who made the spot start after Alex Cobb was scratched and placed on the injured list.

The Yankees put together a healthy inning in the third, loading the bases with an error, a single and a walk with nobody out. Brett Gardner cashed in the opportunity, knocking in a pair of runs with a single to give the Yankees a 3-1 lead. Mike Tauchman added a bases-loaded walk later in the inning, stretching the lead to three runs as the lineup batted around.

King worked with runners on base for most of his outing, but he made the big pitches when he needed to in the early innings. That changed in the fourth, as Rio Ruiz drilled a two-run homer to pull the Orioles within a run.

King was charged with three runs on four hits and two walks, striking out three in his longest outing of the season.

Ben Heller came in from the bullpen in the fifth, giving up the lead on a two-out homer by Renato Núñez, his 10th of the season.

“It's so much easier to pitch in a three-run ballgame than one-run ballgame, just because in today's day and age, there's so many home runs and, as you saw today, a solo shot ties it up,” King said. “I was [angry] at myself because we have that three-run lead; I can hopefully hand it to the bullpen with a three-run lead or more, and then I just make it so much tighter by making it a one-run ballgame.”

The Orioles missed a golden opportunity in the sixth after Zack Britton loaded the bases with one out, but the reliever got Anthony Santander to pop out before José Iglesias grounded out to end the inning, sending the tie game to the final inning of regulation.

The game moved to the eighth -- extra innings in a seven-inning affair -- where the Yankees missed a chance to take the lead, squandering a first-and-third chance with nobody out.

Starting the home half of the inning with their automatic runner at second, the Orioles advanced Pat Valaika to third with one out, but Holder escaped the jam, pushing the game to the ninth.

Holder started the ninth as the runner at second base, scoring on Andújar’s single.

“That was awesome,” King said. “I was in the clubhouse when they were kind of deciding what they were going to do, and they actually had [J.A.] Happ come inside and get his spikes on and get going to possibly have him be the one that goes in there and pinch-runs. Seeing Holder out there, it’s obviously fun for us.”

Clint Frazier added an RBI hit to stretch the lead to two, an insurance run that came into play as Chad Green gave up a run in the bottom of the inning while earning his first save of the season.