Jesus Montero blasts first 2 career HRs as Yanks edge O's

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    Jesus Montero reached across the plate and sent a 93-mph pitch about a dozen rows deep into the right-field seats for his first major league home run, a tiebreaking solo shot in the fifth. A Labor Day crowd of 45,069 at Yankee Stadium coaxed him out for a curtain call.

    Two innings later, he leaned for a 94-mph pitch on the outside corner and drove it 10 rows into those same right-field seats, a little bit more toward the foul line. He had another opposite-field homer, a two-run shot. Curtain call No. 2 followed.

    "I was dreaming of that before," Montero said Monday after boosting the Yankees over the Baltimore Orioles 11-10. "I was always telling myself before, 'One day, I'm going to be that guy.' "

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