Clubhouse quotes from Gonzalez, Jones, Britton and Joseph after win over Yanks

In need of a win and also hopeful of getting a good pitching performance, the Orioles got both tonight.

Miguel Gonzalez struck out a career-high 10 batters, giving up just one run and four hits over seven innings in the Orioles' 4-3 win over the Yankees.

"I think everything started in the first inning," Gonzalez said. "Minimizing the damage and throwing all my pitches for strikes. Keeping them off balance throwing in. And Caleb (Joseph) did a really good job back there. Really good ballgame tonight."

Gonzalez pounded the zone down with his split-finger fastball, which was a real putaway pitch for him tonight.

"Yeah, it was working, I was happy with it," he said. "Was working on it during spring training and it has really paid off. We did a good job, we had it going."

Gonzalez was asked if recording his first career 10-strikeout game meant anything to him.

"It does. It does," he said. "I didn't see it until the end and wasn't thinking about it, but we played a really good ballgame all-around. It's the Yankees and we can't give in. Every pitch has to be a quality pitch. Needed to keep our team in the ballgame."

Gonzalez was at 94 pitches with a 3-1 lead and manager Buck Showalter sent him back out for the top of the seventh. He then struck out the side on 14 pitches for a big finish to his outing.

"That is our goal. As starting pitchers, we want to go deep in ballgames. Was happy he gave me the chance to go out there again," Gonzalez said.

Adam Jones was asked if this was an important win after the O's blew the lead to lose Monday.

"A W is a W, man, you take however one you can get," he said. "I told you we turned the page here. You've seen it. You guys ask the same questions every night. We turned the page. Tomorrow is a new day. Who cares about today now. It's in the books."

As for Jones' thoughts on Gonzalez...

"Clutch," Jones said. "He went out there and did his thing. He had that split working, really good. I mean (Mark) Teixeira, you don't fool that guy too many times on three straight pitches and he fooled him on three straight pitches."

Over the last five games, Jones is 11-for-17 (.647) with four homers, eight runs and nine RBIs. He's knocked in nine of the club's 28 runs (32 percent) since April 10. He is batting .429 on the year.

Is this his best hitting stretch as an Oriole?

"I don't know, that is for you to go decipher. For me, I just need the W. The W is success for me," he said.

Catcher Caleb Joseph had a good seat tonight to watch Gonzalez's strong outing.

"He was incredible," Joseph said. "We've been talking about the split-finger for a while now, trying to get it down. Boy, it showed up tonight, didn't it? He mixed all his pitches in and stayed ahead in the count. When he gets ahead, he is dangerous."

Zach Britton logged the first four-out save of his career tonight. He got pinch-hitter Alex Rodriguez to ground to short to end the game.

What did he think about facing Rodriguez for the last out?

"It took forever to get in the box, but nothing really different," Britton said. "I knew that was probably going to be the situation. Just focus on making good pitches. It was good to get a good quality start from Miguel, get some offense and get the win for him."