BALTIMORE -- As he angrily picked himself up off his belly in the ninth inning Thursday, Aaron Hicks put a scowl on his face and took his mind to one place: over the fence.
"I wanted to get up and hit a homer," the New York Yankees center fielder said.
About 100 feet away in his dugout, other Bronx Bombers shared that mindset, hoping after the 94-mph brushback fastball that miraculously missed hitting him -- thanks to some last-second, body-bending bailing -- Hicks might crush a ball into oblivion.
They were all looking for him to hit yet another Yankees big fly.