Good teams find ways to win...and the Yankees did on Sunday.
The O's rallied from a 3-0 deficit to tie the game in the ninth and send it into extras, but a few costly errors and a little bad luck gave the Yankees a 6-3 win after eleven innings.
After just four pitches, the Yankees took a 2-0 lead off O's starter Jake Arrieta. Things looked grim after Arrieta walked the next two batters, but he rebounded to strike out the next two and escaped the inning down by just two runs. Arrieta settled down and turned in one of his best performances this season, allowing three runs on five hits and three walks over six innings while striking out a career-best nine batters.
The Birds finally got on the board in the seventh inning when Mark Reynolds broke out of an 0-for-22 slump with a two-run blast to right center field. With two down and two on in the bottom of the ninth, Brian Roberts laced a double down the right field line...Adam Jones came around to score but Robert Andino was thrown out at the plate to spoil the walk-off win.
Things took a turn for the worst in the 11th inning...the Yankees used a lead-off double, a stolen base and three infield singles to take a commanding three-run lead. The O's committed two costly throwing errors in the inning to give the Yankees their fourth straight win over the Birds in four tries this season.
The last-place Orioles have Monday off to lick their wounds before hosting the surging Boston Red Sox for a three-game set starting Tuesday night...Zach Britton takes the mound for the Birds.
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