The Orioles' bats came alive at Yankee Stadium on Friday night, and thanks to resurgent nights from slumping sluggers Manny Machado and Mark Trumbo, they took a seemingly comfortable seven-run lead into the seventh-inning stretch.
The usually dependable Orioles bullpen couldn’t hold that cushion, leaking in the later innings in a game that quickly went from rout to redux as the .
Jacoby Ellsbury hit a grand slam off lefty long man Vidal Nuno, forcing the Orioles’ late-inning relievers into a game in which they should have only been spectators.