The Yankee bats jumped on the Orioles early and, despite the bullpen (really just one guy, honestly) making it way too interesting late, tacked on several insurance runs in the game's final innings to win their seventh in a row, leaving the O's in the dust by a touchdown.
Record: 7-1, .875 (0.5 GA) Baltimore managed to draw first blood. After a leadoff walk and a stolen base by Brady Anderson, Will Clark reached on a Bernie Williams error.
That might honestly have been the O's best chance because the Yankees immediately punched back, aided by slipshod Baltimore defense. After Chuck Knoblauch hit a leadoff dinger to tie the game, a double, a walk, an error, a GIDP, and another error combined to push two more runs across. 3-1 Yanks after one.
The rally started innocently enough, with a Knoblauch single, already his third knock of the contest. Chuck promptly stole second. After a Derek Jeter walk, Paul O'Neill lined a single to center to bring Knoblauch across the plate for New York's fourth run.
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