Baltimore Orioles edge New York Yankees in ALDS Game 2 Chen might have wanted to block out the fanfare, but there is no denying it now, not after he hurled 6 1/3 innings of two-run ball in a taut 3-2 win that knotted the best-of-five series at a game apiece. The series will shift to Yankee Stadium for games Wednesday, Thursday and perhaps Friday. Monday's win marked the Orioles" 30th victory in 39 one-run games this season. Chen's performance came in front of a white-towel-whipping 48,187 spectators who were not yet ready to throw them in after 15 years without playoff baseball in Baltimore but might have used them to dry off their seats after the 40-minute rain delay that preceded the first pitch. Signed by the Orioles in January as a non-drafted free agent, Chen, 26, averted trouble in the first inning and locked in to outduel Pettitte, even if Chen's postseason experience was limited to four playoff berths with the Chunichi Dragons in Japan. "In spring training, you could see the kind of work habits he had and how hard he went about his business," Baltimore catcher Matt Wieters said a few hours before Monday's game. You could see that he was working for a long career, not just coming over here and just going to see what happened. The language barrier is something that we've had to deal with, but at the same time, it's his competitive spirit and the way he likes to compete on the mound that pushes past any language. Strikes transcend language, and Chen threw 77 of his 112 pitches for strikes in facing the Yankees for the fifth time this season. New York's first two batters of the game, Derek Jeter and Ichiro Suzuki, fell behind Chen with 0-2 counts but each reached base, Jeter on a single to center and Suzuki on an error by first baseman Mark Reynolds. Orioles second baseman Robert Andino then went to the ground to snag a low line drive off the bat of Alex Rodriguez and flipped to shortstop J.J. Hardy to double off Jeter. Robinson Cano smoked a double to the right-field corner, and Suzuki twice avoided the tag at home of Wieters, once before he reached the plate and again when he maneuvered around the catcher and safely touched base for the first run. That was all the Yankees got until the sixth, when Eduardo Nunez led off with a hit that fell in front of charging right fielder Chris Davis; Nunez raced to an uncovered second base. After fouling off two pitches with an 0-2 count, Jeter punched an RBI single to left field to make it 3-2. When Suzuki reached on a fielder's choice, Orioles Manager Buck Showalter emerged from the dugout to pull Chen. The lefty kicked at the mound in disgust but tipped his cap on his way off the field. Chen also had gotten out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the fourth. Baltimore right-hander Darren O'Day struck out Alex Rodriguez for the second out and after lefty Brian Matusz intentionally walked Cano, Matusz got Nick Swisher to fly out to left field on a 3-2 pitch. After giving up a single to Teixeira to lead off the eighth, Matusz retired the next three hitters, two by strikeout. In the ninth, closer Jim Johnson, the losing pitcher in Game 1, retired Jeter, Suzuki and Rodriguez in order, with a crowd-please strikeout of Rodriguez to end the game. The Orioles are now 75-0 in games they lead after the seventh inning. Pettitte retired the first eight Baltimore batters before Andino and Nate McLouth singled and J.J. Hardy walked on four pitches to load the bases in the third. Chris Davis delivered a two-run single to right center. Adam Jones singled past Jeter to reload the bases --- Hardy stopped at third even though base coach DeMarlo Hale was waving him home --- and Pettitte got Wieters to pop out to end the inning. The Orioles tacked on a run in the bottom of the sixth when Wieters led off with a double and scored on the next pitch when Reynolds singled past second baseman Robinson Cano. That made it 3-1. Another Baltimore rookie, right-hander Miguel Gonzalez, will make his postseason debut Wednesday in New York. He won both of his starts there this season. The Orioles went 6-3 at Yankee Stadium, their most wins there since 1976.