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NEW YORK (AP) -- David Cone allowed four home runs for the first
time in his career and Scott Erickson scattered six hits in 7 2-3
innings as the Orioles beat the New York Yankees 7-6 Tuesday.
Cone (1-7), winless in 11 starts since beating Toronto on April
28, allowed home runs to Mike Bordick, Harold Baines and Brady
Anderson within the first 10 batters, raising his season total to
17.
Mark Lewis hit a three-run homer in the sixth to stretch the
lead to 7-2 and end Cone's day. Cone, whose five-game losing streak
matched the longest of his career, allowed seven runs -- four earned -- and six hits in his 5 2-3 innings.
Williams' RBI single in the eighth chased Erickson. Jorge Posada
homered in the ninth off Alan Mills, and Mike Trombley got two outs
for his second save in seven chances, allowing a two-out,
run-scoring single to Chuck Knoblauch and an RBI double to Derek
Jeter before retiring Paul O'Neill on a game-ending grounder.
Erickson (4-6), who had lost five of his previous six starts,
gave up three runs but managed to snap his own three-game losing
streak and help the Orioles to their fourth win in five games, He
settled down after a rough first inning when it looked like he
might repeat his previous start, when he allowed seven runs and 10
hits in only five innings at Boston.
The Yankees, coming off a 6-7 road trip, lost their fifth
straight at home. New York, which has lost seven of 11 overall, was
swept by Chicago in a four-game series before their season-long
trip.
Bordick started the scoring with his career-high 14th homer with
one out in the first.
The Yankees responded in their half, taking a 2-1 lead.
O'Neill's RBI single scored Knoblauch, who led off with a single.
Jeter, who was hit by a pitch, scored when Bernie Williams, elected
to the AL All-Star team earlier in the day, hit into a double play.
Williams' 13-game streak of scoring at least one run ended five
games shy of the team and major league mark held by Red Rolfe, who
did it in 1939.
New York's good fortune was also short-lived as Baines led off
the second with his ninth homer. Charles Johnson followed with a
walk and after Lewis flied out, Anderson homered deep into the
right-field bleachers for a 4-2 lead. Cone settled down and retired
11 of 12 hitters.
He created his own trouble in the sixth, making a bad throw on
B.J. Surhoff's come-backer. After getting Jeff Conine to ground
out, Cone intentionally walked Baines to get to Johnson. Williams
made a diving catch to temporarily save Cone, but Lewis followed
with his first homer since last Sept. 4.
Game notes
The Yankees hadn't lost five straight at home since May
11-15, 1999. ... Cone also lost five straight from April 7-May 9,
1993. ... Surhoff made a jumping catch in left field to rob
Knoblauch of a home run in the fifth inning. ... Williams, the
leading vote-getter among AL All-Star outfielders, extended his
hitting streak to 14 games with a sixth-inning infield single,
tying his best of the season. ... Bordick, with 50 RBIs, already
has his fourth-highest total in his career. He drove in 77 runs a
year ago. ... Orioles OF Albert Belle was chosen as the AL player
of the month. He drove in a team-record 37 runs in June. ... New
York DH David Justice was 0-for-4 in his home debut with the
Yankees.
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Cleveland 9
Toronto 4
Baltimore 7
NY Yankees 6
Detroit 11
Tampa Bay 0
Boston 14
Minnesota 4
Kansas City 10
Chi. White Sox 7
Texas 10
Oakland 7
Anaheim 7
Seattle 6
Philadelphia 7
Milwaukee 4
St. Louis 14
Cincinnati 3
Pittsburgh 10
Chicago Cubs 4
Florida 9
NY Mets 8
San Francisco 4
Colorado 1
San Francisco 3
Colorado 0
(2nd game)
Atlanta 7
Montreal 3
Arizona 10
Houston 4
San Diego 7
Los Angeles 2
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