NEW YORK – Albert Suárez walked into the visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium this afternoon, turned left and stopped. His eyes did a quick scan of the lockers. His name was nowhere to be found.
Suárez casually spun in the other direction and smiled. He was in a row straight ahead with a bunch of the other pitchers.
He had worked through his first jam.
More would come later, and controlling the Yankees was much harder than locating his uniform.
Suárez didn’t make it out of the fourth inning, Jordan Westburg injured his left hip and the Orioles lost to the Yankees 4-0 before an announced sellout crowd of 47,429. Exactly how they did not want to begin an important series.