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Joba leaves game after being hit by broken bat

Andrew Marchand, ESPN.com

New York Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain has left Game 4 of the AL division series against the Baltimore Orioles in the 12th inning after being hit on the right elbow by a broken bat.

MLB.com

Joe Saunders was asked to keep the Orioles' season alive on Thursday night with the team down, 2-1, in its matchup with the New York Yankees.

CNNSI.com

The Orioles and Yanks are in the 12th inning as they decide Game 4 in the Bronx. Nate McLouth's home run had given Baltimore the lead, but Robinson Cano and New York countered in sixth.

MLB.com

The bedlam that broke out in the Bronx on Wednesday with Raul Ibanez's pair of home runs to lift the Yankees to a 3-2 win in 12 innings over the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Division Series spilled over into social media.

MLB.com

If the Orioles are in a save situation for Game 4 of the American League Division Series on Thursday night, closer Jim Johnson will get the ball.

MLB.com

Oakland announced that the team will remove the tarps that covered the seats on the third deck of the main grandstand for Games 1 and 2, opening up 11,698 new seats for a potential ALCS matchup against the Yankees or Orioles.

The New York Times, nytimes.com

Jim Luttrell and his Times colleagues will offer live analysis of Game 4 of the division series as the Yankees attempt to end the Baltimore Orioles' season and advance to the A.L.C.S.

Justin Sablich, nytimes.com

Alex Rodriguez will be in the lineup and be playing third base while Derek Jeter, who had started 155-straight playoff games at shortstop, will still be leading off but as the designated hitter.

Justin Sablich, nytimes.com

Yankees Manager Joe Girardi did Wednesday night what would have been unthinkable just a few years back: he pinch hit for Alex Rodriguez and it paid off.

Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com

It was easy on Wednesday night to tell the people who are new to watching the Baltimore Orioles from those of us who have watched their games the past few years. There were those who saw Adam Jones as he pursued Derek Jeter's triple in center field and …

Lynn Zinser, nytimes.com

Ninth-inning comebacks by the A's and the Yankees on Wednesday night provided sportswriters with many story lines.

Wallace Matthews, ESPN.com

Manager Joe Girardi said right-hander Phil Hughes would start Game 4 against the Baltimore Orioles even if the New York Yankees were facing elimination.

nydailynews.com

When he was named Oriole GM a little less than a year ago — the last man standing after a half-dozen execs declined to be interviewed, and one, Toronto Blue Jays scouting director Tony LaCava, turned down the job — Dan Duquette knew what he had to do.…

nydailynews.com

Honestly, did anybody really think Joe Girardi had it in him? The Yankee manager has come to be known, not so fondly, as Joey Looseleafs, for his devotion to the statistics in his famous binder on the bench.

nydailynews.com

In the kind of moment when great Yankees are supposed to stand up at Yankee Stadium, Alex Rodriguez sat down. Joe Girardi let Rodriguez bat No. 3 against the Orioles, all right, he did, watched him go 0-for-3, watched him strike out twice.

MLB.com

The Orioles entered the ALDS with a 74-0 record when leading after seven innings and, more appropriate for Wednesday night, as winners of 16 straight extra-inning games. Both streaks are now over.

MLB.com

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said making excuses about missing Derek Jeter's RBI triple in Game 3 on Wednesday wouldn't be his style.

MLB.com

It had been a week since Hiroki Kuroda last took the mound but more than a month since he delivered a performance like he did on Wednesday in the Yankees' 3-2 win in 12 innings over the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Division Series.