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MINNEAPOLIS (Ticker) -- Jerry Hairston homered and delivered a game-tying RBI single in the seventh inning as the Baltimore Orioles rallied for a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Recalled from Triple-A Rochester on Saturday, Hairston's single forged a 4-4 tie. Brady Anderson scored on a wild pitch by Travis Miller later in the inning and a run-scoring single by Albert Belle made it 6-4. Matt Lawton drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the frame to cut the defict in half for the Twins. But rookie Jacque Jones lined to shortstop with the bases loaded and Jesse Orosco came on to strike out pinch hitter Doug Mientkiewicz looking. Mientkiewicz argued the call and was ejected by home plate umpire Marty Foster. Mike Timlin issued a one-out walk to Chad Allen in the ninth before inducing Matt Lawton to bounce into a game-ending double play. Timlin earned his 20th save and made a winner of Al Reyes (1-3), who won despite allowing two runs in one inning. "Pretty good ballgame tonight," said Twins manager Tom Kelly. There was plenty of excitement. We did not have things go our way and we got unlucky with a couple of things." Making his fourth career start, Jason Ryan allowed three runs and six hits over six innings for the Twins. The 23-year-old righthander struck out two and walked one. "The kid (Ryan) pitched well for us," Kelly added. "We battled but came up short. I guess we were not supposed to win." Lefthander Matt Riley, 20, made his first major league start for the Orioles and surrendered two runs and four hits over 2 2/3 innings, striking out two with four walks. "I'm glad to get it over with, but I wish I could have had better success," Riley said. "I was a little shaky and I have some stuff I need to work on. I really was not even nervous but I really didn't have a rhythm. I was having trouble taking a deep breath and relaxing." "The guy was going to be nervous for the first game," Orioles manager Ray Miller said of Riley. "His velocity was what we expected. He'll become more conscious of throwing strikes. The first game in the big leagues, the first game you pitch, you don't remember it. It goes by so fast. Ninety percent of the battle is relaxing and letting yourrself do the work." Hairston hit his third homer of the season against Ryan to open the scoring in the first but Brent Gates tied it in the bottom of the inning with a sacrifice fly. The teams also traded runs in the second before Brady Anderson belted his 22nd homer in the fifth to give Baltimore a 3-2 lead. Lawton delivered an RBI double in the sixth to tie it and Denny Hocking's sacrifice fly put Minnesota on top. "I had one good at-bat, the one where I hit the home run," Anderson said. "It was an 0-2 count. I missed bad on the first two hooks. I thought he might throw another but I stayed back on the fastball." Orioles third baseman Cal Ripken went 1-for-4 and is 26 hits shy of the coveted 3,000 plateau. He did add a dubious mark to his career record, however, grounding into a double play for an American League-record 324th time, breaking the mark held by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski. Hank Aaron grounded into a Major League-record 329 double plays during his career.
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