Orioles 4, Yankees 3
The Baltimore Orioles got a pair of RBIs from Brian Roberts to notch a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Monday in the opener of a three-game series in the Bronx.
The win was just the third for Baltimore in 13 meetings with New York this season and snapped a seven-game losing skid in the Bronx.
The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the third when Josh Bell scored on Felix Pie's double-play grounder. New York answered in the fourth on a solo home run by Alex Rodriguez, his 22nd of the season.
Roberts had an RBI single in the fifth and Matt Wieters added a sacrifice fly in the sixth to put Baltimore up 3-1, but again New York had an answer. In the home half of the sixth Rodriguez hit a sac fly and Robinson Cano added an RBI single to tie the game at 3-3.
Roberts put the Orioles up 4-3 with an RBI single to right in the seventh and this time the Yankees could not answer.
Brian Matusz (8-12) picked up the win, allowing three runs and five hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out four. Matt Albers and Jim Johnson each tossed a scoreless inning of relief to get to Koji Uehara struck out two in a perfect ninth for his seventh save of the season.
A.J. Burnett (10-13) took the loss for New York, allowing four runs and seven hits in seven innings.
The Orioles, who took two of three of Tampa Bay over the weekend, improved to 20-13 record under Buck Showalter.