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Pitching, defense, baserunning all suck as O's blow early lead to Yankees

Stop me if you've heard any of these before: the O's faced a pitcher who didn't bring his best stuff, but they didn't capitalize as much as they should've. Wei-Yin Chen was working on a good start until he fell apart once his pitch count got up near a hundred. Brian Matusz gave up a dagger home run in the 8th inning. Bobby Dickerson got a runner thrown out by a mile in the midst of a big inning. Yep, the O's really broke out the greatest hits for this one. Throw in some defensive miscues, and it's easy to see how today's game ended up in the loss column.