| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
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| Yankees | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| Orioles | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 0 |
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| C.C. Sabathia pitches against the Orioles on May 20th. (Getty Images) |
The Yankees won a wild one tonight in Baltimore as they defeated the Orioles 6-4 in ten innings. With one out in the ninth inning and trailing 4-3, Travis Hafner homered to left field to tie the game at four. The Yankees would score two more runs one inning later, which proved to be enough. With their win tonight, the Yankees improved to 19-0 when scoring first.
C.C. Sabathia started for the Yankees and he was pitching well until the seventh inning when he surrendered the lead. Sabathia allowed four runs on eleven hits in six and a third innings of work. He struck out two and did not walk a batter. It was clear throughout that game that Sabathia's fastball velocity is starting to come back as he was hitting up to 92 on the radar gun. He finished his outing with 102 pitches thrown, in which 66 of them were for strikes.
Robinson Cano and David Adams got the Yankees offense going early as Cano homered in the first inning and David Adams hit his first major league home run in the second.
The Yankees would not score again until the seventh inning. Lyle Overbay led off the inning and belted one into the right field bleachers to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead at time.
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| Travis Hafner reacts after hitting a game-tying home run. (AP Photo) |
The Orioles would storm back in the bottom half of the seventh inning as they scored two runs off of Sabathia, which knocked him out of the game.
With one out in the ninth and down 4-3, Travis Hafner launched a solo shot off Orioles closer, Jim Johnson, to tie the game at four.
After a scoreless ninth inning pitched by David Robertson, the Yankees offense got going in the tenth inning.
Ichiro Suzuki led off the 10th inning with a double down the right field line, and would score one batter later on Vernon Wells's RBI double to left field.
The Yankees were not done though.
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| Mariano Rivera shuts the door on May 20th. (Getty Images) |
The young catcher, Austin Romine, executed a sacrifice bunt to move Vernon Wells to third with one out. Jayson Nix failed to get the runner in as he grounded out to second base with the infield in. The Orioles walked Robinson Cano intentionally to bring up Travis Hafner. Hafner lined a single to right field to score Wells from third. The inning would come to an end one batter later as Lyle Overbay struck out.
Mariano Rivera would remain perfect this season. He came on in the 10th inning to lock down the win. With his save tonight, he is now 17-for-17 on the season, his best start since 2008 when he went 28-for-28.
The Yankees and Orioles will go at it again tomorrow night in the middle game of their three game set.
