As bench-clearing situations go, this one felt like an overreaction. “We got tangled up there, emotions from both sides kind of went off,” said Baltimore's Heston Kjerstad, who was right in the middle of it.

The action, or mostly lack thereof, began in the fourth inning when Baltimore’s Heston Kjerstad stole second base.

The Yankees and Orioles got their steps in, but that was just about all that was accomplished when the benches cleared in the bottom of the fourth inning Wednesday night.