The Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles by a score of 11-3 on Sunday afternoon in the Bronx.

Here are the key takeaways...

-- Ben Rice made an impact at the plate, but his day also came to an abrupt end.

After hitting a solo homer in the top of the first inning off of righty Trey Gibson, who was making his major league debut, Rice later came out of the game in the top of the fourth. He left with what the team is calling a left hand contusion. X-rays are negative, and Rice is considered day-to-day.

The injury appeared to happen when a Max Fried pickoff attempt caught him awkwardly somewhere around the left hand.

-- Aaron Judge came up with big plays both as a hitter and fielder. In the top of the third, Judge made a terrific catch leaping up against the wall in right, robbing Taylor Ward of extra bases. Then, in the bottom half of the same inning, Judge blasted a two-run homer, tying Munetaka Murakami for the AL lead with 13 home runs.

-- Coming off of back-to-back scoreless outings, Fried wasn’t as sharp in this one. While he struck out the side in order in the second, his command, especially with his changeup, wasn't great. Fried left a 3-3 game with two runners on base in the sixth inning, and Fernando Cruz stranded both runners. Fried went 5.1 innings, allowing three earned runs on six hits, striking out six and walking three.

-- Gibson, meanwhile, had a nice afternoon in his big league debut, going 4.2 innings while allowing three earned runs on four hits with two strikeouts and two walks.

-- Jasson Dominguez helped the Yankees take the lead in the sixth, ripping a double from the right-hand side and coming in to score on a Ryan McMahon infield single. Dominguez then gave the Yankees some more insurance runs in the eighth inning, hitting his first home run since last August, putting the Yankees up 6-3. A Paul Goldschmidt two-run single later in the inning broke the game wide open.

And as the floodgate broke open, Dominguez got another at-bat in the eighth inning, and this time ripped another RBI double from the right side.

-- Brent Headrick did a great job out of the bullpen, recording five critical outs in the seventh and eighth innings. Headrick's season ERA is now just 1.59.

Game MVP

Dominguez, who had hits from both sides of the plate and drove in three runs.

Here are the key takeaways...

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