Orioles Beat Angels in First Playoff Game

The Angels played the first postseason game in their history, so why stop after nine innings? John Lowenstein hit a three-run pinch-hit home run to give the Baltimore Orioles Game 1 of the American League playoffs, 6-3. Lowenstein's opposite field home run was his first since "1958 in Little League," he said. The game featured a pitching matchup of Nolan Ryan against Jim Palmer and turned on a tough pop fly down the right-field line than Angel second baseman Bobby Grich dropped. --Keith Thursby