Yanks toss it away, fall to Orioles in 10

BALTIMORE — Yankees reliever Clay Holmes threw a wild pitch with two outs in the ninth inning that let the tying run score, then Austin Hays chopped an RBI single in the 10th that lifted the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 win Thursday night, dropping New York back in the AL wild-card race.

The Yankees fell a halfgame behind idle Toronto and Boston atop the AL wild-card standings. New York had won three in a row.

“We’ve had a lot that have stung a lot at different times throughout the course of the year,” Yankees manager Aaron

Boone said. “This certainly falls into that category, but we have to get over it. We have too important of a game tomorrow.”

Working on a wet night,

Gail Burton / Associated Press The Yankees’ Anthony Rizzo follows through on a double against the Orioles on Thursday in Baltimore.