Manager Joe Girardi said Joseph will need to be able to back up at first, second and third base.

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Duda's grounder down the first-base line with runners on second and third hit the bag and caromed straight up in the air.

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He got 18 groundball outs, and the Orioles didn't get a runner past first base until Nick Markakis took second on Adam Jones' bouncer to third in the ninth.

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James Shields (2-3) was hurt by a throwing error on Moustakas at third base in the second inning that resulted in the Yankees' first run.

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He was ejected in the second inning by first base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt for arguing at plate umpire Greg Gibson from the dugout on a called third strike against Raul Ibanez, who had homered three times in the first two games of the series.

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