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Yankees Batter Gets His Revenge on Oriole Park With Home Run That Got Stuck in Fence

Josh Wilson

Oswaldo Cabrera's go-ahead home run on Wednesday for the Yankees got lodged in the foul pole fence.
Oswaldo Cabrera's go-ahead home run on Wednesday for the Yankees got lodged in the foul pole fence. /
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In the opening game of a series in Baltimore between the two teams jockeying for the lead of the AL East -- the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles -- Baltimore walked away with a win that nearly could have been lost.

In the top of the ninth inning on Monday, Yankees utilityman Oswaldo Cabrera hit a ball deep to left field. The ball, launched 379 feet, would have been a home run in six parks in the majors according to Statcast, but not Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

It was noted by Yankees commentator Michael Kay that it would have been a home run three years ago, calling out the fact that the Orioles reconfigured the stadium to move the left field back a distance.

Instead, it was an easy flyout that led to an Orioles' win.

Wednesday, for the third game in the four-game set, Cabrera hit another ball that went 352 feet to right field. This one was ruled a home run because it got lodged in the right-field foul pole fencing.

Cabrera admitted he didn't even know where the ball was.

"At the moment that I hit the ball, I know it that I hit really well, but I didn't know where was the ball. So if you see my running to first I was like, 'where's the ball?'"

One night, falling short to the dimensions of the field. A few days later, getting past the same park's dimensions, just by the skin of the ball, both events playing into the final scoreline directly.

Going into Thursday's matchup, the Orioles lead the series 2-1, with both teams locked in a tie for the top spot in the AL East.

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JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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