Wednesday,  September 19, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 064 • 37 of 39 •  Other Editions

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Teagarden's 18th inning single lifts Orioles to 4-2 win over Mariners

• SEATTLE (AP) -- The Baltimore Orioles weren't going to be denied a victory -- or making history -- even if it took 5 hours and 44 minutes to do it.
• Taylor Teagarden stroked a pinch-hit RBI single to right in the 18th inning to help give the Baltimore Orioles a 4-2 comeback victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.
• The win allowed the Orioles (84-64) to pull within a percentage point of the Yankees (83-63) for the lead in the AL East. The Yankees were rained out Tuesday and will play a split double-header with Toronto on Wednesday.
• Baltimore maintained a three-game lead in the wild-card race over the Los Angeles Angels, who beat Texas 11-3 in Anaheim.
• The Orioles' success in extra-inning games might be one of the biggest factors keeping them in the playoff hunt. They have won 14 straight extra-inning games for

the longest extra-inning win streak since the 1949 Cleveland Indians won 19 straight. Overall, the Orioles are 14-2 in extra-inning games this season, going 9-0 in them on the road.
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Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Wednesday, Sept. 19, the 263rd day of 2012. There are 103 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 19, 1982, the smiley emoticon was invented as Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorously intended computer messages by employing a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal "smiley face." :-)
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• On this date:
• In 1777, the first Battle of Saratoga was fought during the Revolutionary War; although the British forces succeeded in driving out the American troops, the Americans prevailed in a second battle the following month.
• In 1796, President George Washington's farewell address was published.
• In 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2½ months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became president.

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