BALTIMORE --
\"It's a satisfying feeling because of the way the last couple of weeks have gone,\" Frazier said. \"I think I've had a slow start getting back to where I've wanted to be, and hopefully tonight is a way to build off that. That's the best I've felt in a while.\"
\n\nMired in a 1-for-17 skid and owning six hits in 40 at-bats (.150) since returning from a sprained left ankle, Frazier mashed a two-run homer in the third inning and added a three-run shot in the fifth as the Yankees tattooed right-hander David Hess for nine runs, coasting to their Major League-best 23rd win in the last 31 games.\n\n\"It's certainly good to see him come out and get some results,\" Yankees manager Aaron Boone said of Frazier. \"That's part of growing up in the big leagues. You're going to have your peaks and valleys, and you try and manage them the best you can. It's good to see him break out. I think we all understand what he's capable of when he gets really locked in.\"
\n\nFrazier said he had been struggling to regain his timing since the stint on the injured list, despite Boone's assertion before Tuesday's game that the 24-year-old seemed to be finding his stroke.\n\n\"I think people lose track of how hard this game is, especially coming off the \\[injured list\\] and trying to get back to playing the way that you are,\" Frazier said. \"These guys have stuck behind me the entire year and made me feel really a part of this team. It's been a lot easier to have those bad games because everybody was trying to pick me up after the game.\"
One night after his ninth-inning, three-run homer [decided the series opener](https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-rally-in-ninth-to-stun-orioles), Sanchez gave his club a near-instant lead in the first inning with a line-drive laser that cleared the left-field wall. Eight of Sanchez's team-leading 14 homers have come off Orioles pitching. \n \n\"He's as lethal as anyone when he's making sure he gets his pitch,\" Boone said. \"He's doing a better job of not expanding the zone when he gets in a really good count. He's pretty dangerous.\"
As Frazier's blasts padded the cushion, German held Baltimore to three runs (two earned) and five hits over five innings. Though Boone said German seemed to be taxed by a lengthy third inning, the righty improved to 3-0 with a 3.09 ERA in six career appearances against the Orioles. \n \n\"I actually felt pretty good,\" German said through an interpreter. \"I felt my pitches were good tonight; were close to perfect, if I can say that. There were two innings where I battled. That one inning they were able \\[to score\\], but in the end I was able to battle and get through the five innings.\"\n\nStevie Wilkerson hit a three-run homer in the fifth off German, one batter after German committed a throwing error on what could have been a double play. German is the first Yankee to win nine games in the team's first 47 games since Bob Turley in 1958.
\"It feels good, but the focus is to get the job done,\" German said. \"We have really good pitchers in our starting rotation and they have been able to pitch for many, many years. Comparing myself to them, I am just starting.\"\n\nYet as the Yankees dressed at their lockers in the visitors clubhouse, the player-issued championship belt -- indicative of the game's top contributor -- did not hang from the chairs assigned to Frazier, Sanchez or German.\n\nInstead, its owner for the overnight hours was to be right-hander