It didn't matter that the Orioles had allowed six runs during one of the ugliest innings of the season. Nor did it matter that it was nearly 1 a.m.
Third baseman Manny Machado was going to take charge -- as he so often has during the second half of the season -- turning a defeat into a dramatic victory.
Machado's two-run home run in the ninth inning gave the Orioles an exciting 7-6 win against the New York Yankees before 14,377 at Oriole Park Sept. 5.
By the time Machado hit his second home run of the game, and his 32nd of the season, it was 12:53 a.m., and fans had sat through a two-hour and 14-minute rain delay at the start of the game.
