O's use big inning to get best of Greene, Yankees 9-5

The Orioles finally made Shane Greene feel blue. He went 2-0 with a 1.42 ERA in his first two starts against them this year and took a 3-0 lead into the fourth inning today. Then the Orioles knocked him out of the game during a six-run, seven-hit inning where they sent 11 batters to the plate on the way to beating the Yankees 9-5 this afternoon. Held to one hit and shut out in the series opener on Monday, the Orioles produced 14 runs on 32 hits in winning the last two games at Yankee Stadium. The Orioles improve to 13-5 on the season against New York. That is their most wins against the Yankees since going 13-5 in 1976. With a win tomorrow, the Orioles will win all six of their series against the Yankees for the season. Nelson Cruz and Steve Clevenger singled to start the fourth and Kelly Johnson's one-out walk loaded the bases. Ryan Flaherty doubled in two runs to pull the O's within 3-2 and a Nick Markakis two-run single gave the Orioles a 4-3 lead. David Lough's RBI triple made it 5-3 and an Adam Jones' bunt RBI single capped the scoring in the inning. The Orioles added three runs in the eighth on a Lough sac fly and RBI singles by Cruz and Jones. Cruz went 4-for-5 and is 7-for-10 the last two games while Flaherty went 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Markakis, Lough and Jones also had two RBIs. Markakis has five RBIs over his past two games after going 21 games without an RBI. With that big inning, Bud Norris went from three runs behind to three ahead after he gave up single runs in the first three innings, including solo homers to Stephen Drew and Chase Headley. Norris gave up five hits and three runs over six innings with one walk and nine strikeouts, one less than his season-high. Norris is 15-8 with an ERA of 3.65. In five September starts, Norris is 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA. In 14 starts this year against the American League East, the right-hander is 9-1 with a 2.85 ERA. The Orioles are 13-1 in those games. Today's win makes the Orioles 16-7 in September, 45-32 on the road and 95-63 for the season with four regular season games left. In the final game of this four-game series on Thursday night, Kevin Gausman (7-7, 3.57 ERA) pitches against Hiroki Kuroda (11-9, 3.77 ERA).