Article: Orioles try to look up after bottoming out.

NEW YORK - There is no more fitting image of the Baltimore Orioles' train wreck of a season than that of relief pitcher Armando Benitez, frustrated and wild-eyed, being hammered from all sides after igniting an ugly brawl with the New York Yankees on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.

Benitez had just given up a go-ahead home run to Yankees cleanup hitter Bernie Williams with two outs in the eighth inning, the Orioles' fifth-consecutive blown save, and he reacted by hitting Yankees first baseman Tino Martinez in the back with his next pitch.

The impetuous pitcher retreated as punches landed cleanly on his head and shoulders until he stood on the edge of ...

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