NEW YORK — With one of his classic inside-out swings, Derek Jeter sent a sharp grounder skimming through the infield in the third inning last night, pushing him past Lou Gehrig on the New York Yankees' all-time hit list.

Jeter broke the record held by Gehrig for more than seven decades. The opposite-field single at Yankee Stadium in a 10-4 loss to Baltimore gave Jeter 2,722 hits, one more than Gehrig, whose Hall of Fame career was cut short by illness in 1939. The captain also had an RBI single in the fourth.

"The whole experience has been overwhelming," Jeter said. "This is more than I could've imagined."