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Remembering a pair of famous Orioles brawls

Manny Machado's attack of Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura captured everyone's attention Tuesday as it became the biggest story in baseball on an otherwise quiet sports night.

It inspired thousands of tweets and memes, and also memories of O's brawls before.

The Orioles were involved in two of baseball's most famous donnybrooks, both in the 1990s.

Thankfully, low-def YouTube documentation of each exists.

May 19, 1998: Benitez takes frustrations out on Yankees

O's closer Armando Benitez allowed a go-ahead three-run home run to Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams in the eighth inning.