MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- On the night that Cal Ripken got his 3,000th hit, the Baltimore Orioles ended a four-game skid with a 6-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins.

Trombley a regular to 3,000

Baltimore relief pitcher Mike Trombley has seen this before. When Cal Ripken collected his 3,000th hit Saturday night, it was the fourth time that Trombley witnessed the milestone. Trombley "Three of my teammates have done it now," Trombley said after getting his first save. "And I threw the other one." Trombley played for the Twins when teammate Paul Molitor hit No. 3,000 in 1996 and when Dave Winfield did it for Minnesota in 1993. On June 30, 1995, Trombley gave up Eddie Murray's 3,000th hit. "I've been joking with Eddie about it all week," Trombley said of Baltimore's first-base coach. Murray was the first person to greet Ripken after his historic single. Like Ripken, Murray and Winfield reached 3,000 at the Metrodome. That means, Trombley was on the field each time the milestone took place in Minnesota, and four out of the 24 times it has happened in baseball history. "I'm a big baseball fan," Trombley said. "I'm a fan of trivia, so it's really neat."