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- Updated: July 21, 2016
NEW YORK — Late Wednesday night, Adam Jones stood in the Orioles’ clubhouse next to two uninhabited lockers — one belonging to Manny Machado (virus) and one belonging to Hyun Soo Kim (strained right hamstring, 15-day DL). Despite having back spasms, Jones ensured he’d play the following day.
“I got nothing else to do,” Jones joked after the Orioles’ third straight loss of the series.
Yet when Baltimore took the Yankee Stadium field Thursday afternoon for the series finale against the Yankees, Jones wasn’t manning his usual spot in center field. Even he wasn’t immune. It didn’t seem to matter, as Baltimore snapped a four-game skid with a 4-1 win, thanks in part to seven brilliant innings from ace Chris Tillman.
“We needed to go out and get a win today,” Tillman said. “Didn’t want to lose four in a row [to the Yankees].”
Tillman’s now pitched at least seven innings and allowed just one earned run in each of his past four starts, but he shrugged when presented the idea of being a stopper.
Caleb Joseph, who caught Tillman (14-2) for the first time of the season, thought …
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