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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- For the second straight night, the
Kansas City Royals won with a walk-off home run.
Brian Johnson followed up Johnny Damon's ninth-inning
game-winner from a day earlier by hitting a two-run homer with one
out in the 12th inning to give Kansas City a 7-5 come-from-behind
win over the Baltimore Orioles.
"We're not going to let ourselves get carried away with this.
We're not going to let that happen," Johnson said. "We'll always
be happy with a single if that's all it takes."
In the ninth, 10th and 11th innings, a single is all the Royals
needed after they got the potential winning run in scoring
position. But each time, the Baltimore relief corps got the third
out, once with help from shortstop Mike Bordick who made a terrific
play.
"We passed up a lot of opportunities," manager Tony Muser
said. "We got a little anxious at the plate. When you're youthful
you've got to learn how to control your emotions ... when you can
beat somebody with a single. We tried to do too much with the
baseball."
Joe Randa, whose three-run homer in the eighth off reliever Al
Reyes had tied it at 5, beat out an infield single leading off the
12th against Tim Worrell (1-1). Then Johnson hit his second home
run to left-center with one out.
"I'm out there trying to throw strikes," Worrell said. "I
haven't seen the replay. I don't know if I got it where I wanted or
not."
Jose Santiago (1-0) pitched the 12th for the win.
Cal Ripken homered in his first at-bat, leaving him five hits
away from 3,000. Ripken, who started the season with 2,991 hits,
got home run No. 404 on a 2-0 pitch from rookie right-hander Chad
Durbin. He was 1-for-5.
The Orioles led 5-2 when Reyes relieved Sidney Ponson and gave
up a leadoff double to Carlos Febles to start the eighth. One out
later, Jermaine Dye walked to set to up Randa's two-out homer.
"He hung that first pitch changeup to Randa and Joe did with it
what good hitters do," Baltimore manager Mike Hargrove said.
After Ripken homered in the second, Will Clark walked, Mike
Bordick doubled and Brady Anderson made it 3-0 with a two-run
single.
Mike Sweeney, who started the game tied with Toronto's Tony
Batista and Baltimore's Charles Johnson for the AL home run lead,
hit his fifth with one out in the fourth.
Carlos Beltran doubled to lead off the sixth and eventually
scored from third when Ripken was charged with a throwing error
from third base on Sweeney's grounder.
Anderson hit a solo home run in the fifth and Harold Baines made
it 5-2 with an RBI single in the seventh.
Durbin, who gave up just one hit in six innings in his first
major league start last week at Toronto, allowed four runs and five
hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked four and struck out two.
Ponson allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings.
Game notes
Ripken's homer gave him 1,575 RBI, tying him with Jake
Beckley for 29th on the career list. ... Last April, the Orioles
went 6-16. ... Baltimore 2B Delino DeShields made a terrific
run-saving play in the fourth when he dove to his right to knock
down Dye's smash, then threw him out by half a step. One pitch
later, Sweeney homered. ... When Royals DH Mark Quinn flied out in
the fourth, it was the first time in four at-bats he hadn't
doubled. ... Anderson's home run was his 183rd, moving him past
Rafael Palmeiro and Ken Singleton for 5th place for the Orioles. ... The Royals have hit 19 doubles in the last six games.
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