BALTIMORE (AP) – Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui hit consecutive homers in the ninth inning, and the New York Yankees took advantage of 14 walks in a 9-7 comeback victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.

New York trailed 6-2 in the fifth inning before rallying for its seventh win in eight games. The Yankees took two of three from the Orioles to capture the season series 14-5 and move a season-high 37 games over .500 (90-53).

It was the club-record ninth time this season that New York rallied from a deficit of four runs or more. The Yankees, who did not have a comeback of that nature all last year, won despite stranding 17 runners and going 0-for-5 with the bases loaded. New York had not received as many as 14 walks in a game since 1980.

With the score 7-all, Sheffield hit his 34th home run of the season leading off the ninth against Jorge Julio (2-5). Four pitches later, Matsui sent a drive far over the center-field wall.

Tom Gordon (7-4) got four outs and Mariano Rivera worked the ninth for his major-league leading 48th save in 51 chances.

Larry Bigbie went 4-for-4 and David Newhan had three RBIs for the Orioles, who used 10 pitchers, a major league record for a nine-inning game.

New York began its comeback with a fifth-inning run against Rick Bauer. After Miguel Cairo hit an RBI single, John Olerud was tagged out at the plate trying to score on a wild pitch.

But the Yankees batted around in the sixth and scored three runs off Dave Borkowski to make it 6-all. After Alex Rodriguez doubled in two runs and Sheffield followed an RBI single, New York missed a chance to take the lead after loading the bases with one out.

The Yankees took care of that matter in the seventh against Jason Grimsley, who issued three walks and threw two wild pitches. The lone hit against him a leadoff single by Kenny Lofton, who scored on a sacrifice fly by Sheffield.

A two-out RBI single by Javy Lopez tied it in the bottom half against Paul Quantrill.

Orioles starter Daniel Cabrera struggled with his control and didn’t make it out of the second inning. The rookie right-hander gave up two runs, two hits and a career-high tying six walks.

The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the first without benefit of a hit. Cabrera walked leadoff hitter Derek Jeter, then got two outs before walking three straight, including Ruben Sierra with the bases loaded.

Baltimore answered with two unearned runs in the bottom half. After Rodriguez dropped a soft liner to third, Melvin Mora doubled and Rafael Palmeiro lined a two-out double off the right-field scoreboard.

Cabrera was pulled with two outs in the second after walking Matsui with the bases loaded.

Baltimore took a 4-2 lead in the home half on a two-out, two-run single by Newhan, who also singled in a run in a two-run fourth that made it 6-2.

Notes: All three games of the series were sellouts, giving Baltimore eight this season. … New York has batted around 30 times this season. … The Orioles will not use rookie LHP Erik Bedard for the rest of the season as a precautionary measure and will start Matt Riley on Wednesday in Toronto.

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