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O’s rally against Yankees’ vaunted bullpen
- Updated: June 6, 2016
BALTIMORE — The Orioles waited one hour and 37 minutes to complete the bottom of the eighth inning. But it was worth it as the O’s used Matt Wieters’ two-out, two-run single to rally back for a 3-1 win over the Yankees in the rubber game at Camden Yards on Sunday afternoon.
The Orioles put runners on first and second with one out before play was halted due to the weather. When the game resumed, Aroldis Chapman got Jonathan Schoop to strike out before Francisco Pena singled to load the bases and set the stage for Wieters’ big pinch-hit, which gave way to a third run thanks to an errant throw home.
“I think baseball is big on kind of, ‘Been there, done that,'” Wieters said of the O’s latest comeback win. “So that any time you get down, it’s kind of nice to have games to look back on and sort of draw from that a little bit, and that experience can be used. So we’ll see as the season goes on, we’ll draw from the good and try and improve on the bad.”
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Alex Rodriguez put the Yankees on the board with an RBI single off Kevin Gausman in the third. Gausman went six innings and held the Yankees to seven hits. His mound counterpart, CC Sabathia, struggled with command but managed to emerge unscathed. Sabathia allowed two hits and six walks, twice escaping a bases-loaded spot to go five scoreless innings.
“I tried to do whatever I could to keep us with that one-run lead,” Sabathia said. “Hopefully next time out I’ll be better and have some better control and keep the walks to a minimum.”
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDWieters comes through: The O’s catcher has been clutch all year and did it again in his only at-bat on Sunday. Baltimore went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position and had left nine men on base before the rain delay.
“Same approach as 0-0, really — just trying to be as short as possible,” Wieters said of his 0-2 hit. “If you get the barrel on it, he’ll supply the power to be able to get it through the infield. Frankie did a great job of being able to get a hit to set it up, and I was just trying …
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