BALTIMORE � Oh, how the Yankees will miss the Orioles at Camden Yards.
Wednesday night was the last game of the year for Aaron Boone's club at their favorite road ballpark, which often sounds like any night in the Bronx.
The usual flock of Yankees fans were up and chanting "Gio, Gio," after Gio Urshela's second home run of the game, a runaway 14-2 win by the Yankees in a homer-filled three-game sweep.
Sweep?
It was a complete mop-up of the season series at Camden Yards, with the first-place Yankees taking all 10 games against the last-place Orioles.
Opening up a 10-game AL East lead over second-place Tampa Bay, the Yankees became only the second team since 1955 to go 10-0 against one opponent on the road in a single season.
In the ninth, Cameron Maybin's solo shot and Kyle Higashioka's two-run blast _ his second homer of the night _ gave the Yankees five homers for the game and 16 for the series.
It was the Yankees' fifth five-homer game against the O's this year, and Boone's club had already established an MLB record with four five-homer games versus one opponent in a single season.
By winning their eighth straight game, before 16,299 fans, the Yankees extended their winning streak at Camden Yards to 15 straight games dating to July 11, 2018.
The victory extended the Yankees' franchise-best road winning streak at any single opponent.
The Yankees are now tied for the second-longest road winning streak at one opponent in AL history, matching the Toronto Blue Jays' streak at Boston from 1987-89.
On Sunday night, Urshela struggled to dress as his locker, having drilled two foul balls off his legs in the same at-bat.
After smashing one into his right knee, Urshela nailed his left shin � causing him once again to hit the ground, writhing in pain.
With a wrap on his right leg and a patch on his left, Urshela took a seat on the bench as the Yankees blasted five home runs on Monday night and six more on Tuesday night � establishing a record for a road team at one ballpark in a single season.
Back in the lineup and playing third base on Wednesday night, Urshela enjoyed his first career multi-homer game in the majors (as did Higashioka), with two-run homers in the fifth and sixth innings.
And in their best next-man-up tradition, catcher Kyle Higashioka's two-out, three-run homer to center highlighted a four-run fourth inning off lefty starter John Means.
Main backup catcher Austin Romine had clubbed home runs in each of the first two games of this series, while Gary Sanchez (left groin strain) headed out on a minor-league rehab assignment and is due to return to the Yankees lineup on Saturday.
"Doesn't matter who's in there, who's not in there, we've got guys who continue to step up and have good at-bats," Brett Gardner said this week. "And collectively, when you're doing that as a whole team, you're going to get some good results."
Gardner doubled twice on Wednesday after homering in each of the first two games.
The scoring began with Maybin's shallow fly ball to right that somehow dropped between three Orioles for an RBI single _ scoring Urshela, who had doubled.
That play underscored just how this three-game series went for Baltimore; Means (8-7), their best pitcher, was chased in the fourth and the Yanks resumed batting practice against the Orioles bullpen.
And an apparent altercation in the Orioles dugout, following the miscommunication on Maybin's fly, led to first baseman Chris Davis' exit, replaced by a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning.
Maybin went 4-for-5.
How cozy was it at Camden Yards?
An effective James Paxton pitched into the seventh inning and was prompted to acknowledge a standing ovation upon his exit, saluted by a strong collection of Yankees fans sated behind the Orioles dugout.
Paxton (7-6) lasted 6.2 innings, his longest start since going eight innings against the Red Sox on April 16.
Using 108 pitches, Paxton yielded just one run _ a fourth-inning, leadoff homer by Trey Mancini _ on five hits with one walk and seven strikeouts.
