Dobson K's 11 as O's bats continue hotstreak

Day 13 would bring a match up between the two worst teams in the league.  The Orioles came into the game with only one win but bringing momentum from the previous win. Pat Dobson would start for the O's who came into the game 0-2 and have given up ten runs in those two starts.  Randy Keisler (0-1) would go for the Pinstripes, it was his second start of the season.

The scoring started early for New York, tallying a run and two hits in each of the first two innings, which included a homerun from Alfonso Soriano.  While the Yankees did score in the first two innings the Orioles only threatened; putting two runners on base in the first and loading the bases before a strikeout by Paul Blair to end the inning.  However, the Orioles would break through in the 3rd. Frank Robinson walked to lead off and Boog Powell homered deep to right.  Then again in the forth Belanger would walk to start, the pitcher Dobson singled, then another walk to Rettenmund would load the bases with no outs in the inning.  Blair would redeem his strikeout earlier in the game with a single that would score Belanger. Frank Robinson would walk again, he had three walks on the day, which would bring in another run.

The Yankee offense was stifled but was not completely ineffective against Dobson after the 2nd inning.  Only getting three hits the rest of the game, unfortunately for the O's, two of the hits were solo homeruns by Jorge Posada and Soriano, his second of the game, to take the lead in the 7th. The Orioles had an answer the following inning. A walk, a double and a single by Frank Robinson would score the eventual game winning run. Dobson would make it interesting by walking Posada and conceding a single to Brosius but would end the game with a strikeout of Soriano, his eleventh of the game. "Well obviously this game was big for us. We really felt that if we got just one win we could build off of that and continue to win," Dobson, the winning pitcher, said.

"We're not getting production from the middle of the lineup and that cripples any team. We can compete with any team in this league but we need production from those guys," Derek Jeter, the captain, said. With the three through five hitters going 0 for 12 in the game Jeter would seem to be right.

The win was Baltimore's second bringing their record to 2-9.  The Yankees record drops to 3-8.

WP : Pat Dobson (1-2)
LP : Randy Keisler (0-2)

Team		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
01 Yankees		1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0		4	7	1
Orioles		0	0	2	3	0	0	0	1	0		5	9	0