New York Yankees Flashback: Bad Benitez Tears Into Tino

An ugly event occurred in the Bronx on May 19, 1998, as (at the time) Orioles reliever Armando Benitez drilled Tino Martinez in the back for the crime of being the on-deck batter after Bernie Williams humiliated him by blasting an upper-deck, game-changing three-run homer in a 9-5 New York Yankees victory.

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