New York Yankees at Baltimore Orioles

BALTIMORE – Brent Headrick stood near the back of the mound, hands on his hips, as all of Camden Yards waited for a verdict. Pete Alonso had gone into full Carlton Fisk mode, hopping down the first-base line, expecting his towering seventh-inning drive to light up the scoreboard as a go-ahead home run. Instead, the initial call was a foul ball. Alonso raised both hands to his helmet and howled, then did so again when replay angles proved inconclusive. Headrick told himself to bear down and focus on getting the out. He did, striking out Alonso swinging. “I’m a pitcher, right?” Headrick said after the Yankees’ 5-3 victory over the Orioles on Wednesday night. “So from my vantage point, I thought it was foul. But yeah, I think it could have gone either way. It went in our favor.” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he didn’t believe his team caught a break. While it was initially unsure, replay coordinator Brett Weber walked to the third-base line after the game to plot the path of Alonso’s drive. The conclusion: The initial call was correct, a foul ball. “It’s a long strike,” Jazz Chisholm Jr. said. “That’s what we all talk about. If they all counted, we’d have a lot of home runs – everybody in the world.” Understandably, Alonso and his teammates saw it differently. Then the Yankees took advantage: George Lombard Jr. legged out a bases-loaded infield single, and Chisholm raced home with another run on a wild pitch, sparking New York’s third straight win.