BALTIMORE _ In good and not-so-good times, the Yankees could always count on a trip to Camden Yards to boost their lineup's ego and the team's win column.
And if there was ever a moment that Aaron Boone's club needed that reliable pick-me-up, it was Friday.
After surviving an extra-inning victory, the Yankees settled for a doubleheader split with the Orioles, who snapped a 19-game losing streak against the Bronx Bombers.
In the quiet shadow of the B&O Railroad Building, ninth-inning RBI singles by Miguel Andujar and Clint Frazier off Travis Lakins pushed the Yankees to a 6-5 victory in the opener of a seven-inning doubleheader.
After the game, the Yankees called up Clarke Schmidt, widely regarded as their No. starting pitching prospect, and optioned reliever Ben Heller.
In relief of fellow rookie Deivi Garcia in the nightcap, Schmidt gave up four quick runs in the Orioles' 6-3 victory.
Following his sparkling debut start last Sunday against the Mets (6 IP, 0 ER), Garcia exited with two out in the fifth, with the Yanks leading 3-2.
Schmidt yielded two inherited runs on singles by Ryan Mountcastle and Rio Ruiz before Pat Valaika's two-run double.
In 4 2/3 innings, Garcia was charged with four runs on five hits, including Mountcastle's two-run homer.
Having lost four of their last six games, the Yankees � 5.5 games behind the AL East-leading Rays � are closer to the fourth-place Orioles than to first place.
Baltimore's victory also ended an 18-game winning streak by the Yankees at Camden Yards dating to the summer of 2018.
Paired once again with Garcia, 40-year-old catcher Erik Kratz became emotional talking before the game about his father-son type relationship with Garcia, 21, and other young Latin pitchers he's worked with during his long pro career.
"I love seeing what they can do. And I think sometimes people forget where they come from, that they want (success) just as badly. And there's people at home that want it just as badly for them.
"And they're not around their family," Kratz said, trying to hold back tears.
"My Spanish isn't that great, but it's something that I try. And I want it to be good and now I get to cry on Zooms.
"Because, I've got kids, too. And I hope somebody would treat my kids that way."
In the nightcap, Kratz's two-run single had given the Yanks a 3-2 lead in the fourth.
Jonathan Holder had the distinction of getting the first game victory and scoring the go-ahead run, a rarity in an AL game.
Speaking with him afterward, starter Michael King said Holder "thought something terrible" had happened when a few Yankees rushed out toward him after he'd completed his inning.
"And they were like, 'No, you've got to get a helmet on and get to second base,' " said King, who yielded three runs in four innings.
Losing use of the designated hitter through a series of Yankees defensive switches, Holder was the runner placed at second base in the ninth inning (based on the extra-inning rules for 2020).
Easily crossing to third on DJ LeMahieu's groundout and scoring on Andujar's single, "Holder said he felt like he was actually part of the team," King said with a smile.
Andujar had just arrived Friday evening from the alternate site camp, with Gio Urshela (bone spur, right elbow) added to the injured list.
Holder worked out of trouble in the eighth, stranding the winning run at third by striking out pinch-hitter and former Mets prospect Dilson Herrera and getting the dangerous Anthony Santander on a full-count fly out.
In the opener, Chad Green yielded a run in the ninth but recorded his first save of the season.
Baltimore had fought back from a 4-1 deficit, tying it on Renato Nunez's solo homer off Heller in the fifth.
After surrendering a game-tying, ninth-inning homer in Thursday's 9-7 loss to the Mets, Aroldis Chapman entered a tie game in the seventh and held the O's in check, with two strikeouts.
After Gary Sanchez belted his seventh homer of the year in the second, Brett Gardner's two-run single off O's starter Thomas Eshelman highlighted a three-run third inning.
