Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 9-6 at Fenway Park in extra innings, their 16th successive extra-inning victory, the most since 1949 when the Cleveland Indians won 17 in a row.
The victory enabled the Orioles to inch closer to the New York Yankees, who are at the top of the American League East table. The Yankees too won an extra inning game against the Oakland Athletics 10-9.
Adam Jones commented for the first time in his five years in Baltimore he had heard fan shout "Let's Go, Orioles", while the Red Sox fans constantly booed.
The Orioles have now won a season-best six straight games; 45 out of their 87 victories have come on the road, the most in the A.L. This might well be their opportunity to enter the playoffs for the first time since 1997.
The Orioles looked quite impressive initially, Jones homered to lead off the seventh inning, which gave the Orioles a 6-3 lead, and the team is 68-0 in games in they lead after seven innings. Boston got two runs in the bottom of the seventh, to make it 6-5. That situation also looked like it was advantage Baltimore, who own a 52-21 in one-run games and had a streak of 13 victories in one-run games.
However, Red Sox caught up with their opponents, with the Orioles seemingly having an affinity for extra innings. It was their 18th extra-inning game of the season on Saturday. They have had games of 18 innings, 17 and 15. They are the first team to win games in eight different extra innings according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Orioles manager, Buck Showalter said that the Orioles had plenty of experience in the past playing under such conditions and hence do not panic easily. "They are pretty capable of handling such pressure, especially on the road when you don't score in the top of the inning," he said.
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