New York starter Gerrit Cole kept the Baltimore Orioles in check over six innings and Aaron Judge finally homered again as the visiting Yankees won 4-1 in matchup of AL East Division front-runners on Friday night.Judge’s majors-leading 33rd home run was his first long ball in nine games as the teams opened a three-game series.There was tension in the bottom of the ninth inning, with Orioles manager Brandon Hyde enraged after Yankees reliever Clay Holmes hit Heston Kjerstad with a pitch with one out. The dugouts emptied and there was some pushing and shoving. Hyde was ejected, and Holmes got a grounder and a strikeout to complete his 21st save.The Yankees won for only the sixth time in their last 21 games, but it was enough to pull them within a game of first-place Baltimore.The Orioles have lost four games in a row and will end up with a losing mark for the six-game homestand after getting swept by the Chicago Cubs earlier in the week.Baltimore batters went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position, extending their three-game mark in that category to 1-for-25.Cole (2-1) was making only his fifth start of the season after spending the first 2 1/2 months on the injured list. He limited the Orioles to one run on five hits with seven strikeouts and one walk in his longest start of the season.Tommy Kahnle, Luke Weaver each worked an inning leading to Holmes.