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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Baltimore 6, Toronto 5
When: 1:07 PM ET, Saturday, May 25, 2013
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature: 57°
Umpires: Home - Wally Bell, 1B - Manny Gonzalez, 2B - Tony Randazzo, 3B - Dan Bellino
Attendance: 35915


Orioles 6, Blue Jays 5: Danny Valencia and Adam Jones homered to lead Baltimore past host Toronto.

J.J. Hardy added a two-run single and Freddy Garcia (1-2) escaped multiple jams over five precarious innings as the Orioles won their second straight. Garcia surrendered three runs - two earned - on nine hits while stranding a runner on third base in three of his five innings.

R.A. Dickey (4-6) was charged with six runs on nine hits over 6 2/3 innings as Toronto dropped to 3-3 on its nine-game homestand. The knuckleballer saw his two-game winning streak come to an end.

Baltimore struck for three runs in the first inning for the second straight day, as Chris Davis belted an RBI ground-rule double and Hardy followed with a two-run single up the middle. An Adam Lind RBI single and Emilio Bonifacio's second home run trimmed the deficit to 3-2, but Valencia restored the three-run advantage with a shot to the second deck to left and Jones added a line-drive blast off the facing of the third deck.

Toronto made a game of it in the eighth on RBI singles from Munenori Kawasaki and Melky Cabrera, but Darren O'Day coaxed an inning-ending groundout from Jose Bautista and Jim Johnson worked a perfect ninth for his 15th save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Bautista went 3-for-5 and is hitting .382 in May. ... Blue Jays 3B Brett Lawrie went 2-for-5 with a run scored and a stolen base less than 24 hours after being ejected for hurling his batting gloves toward home-plate umpire Dan Bellino following a called third strike. Crew chief Wally Bell said Lawrie was tossed for violating baseball etiquette by tossing his gloves "in a bad manner". ... Dickey has walked 31 batters in 68 2/3 innings after issuing just 54 free passes over 233 2/3 innings a season ago.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Baltimore   Toronto
Freddy Garcia Player R.A. Dickey
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 6.2
1 Strikeouts 4
9 Hits 9
3.60 ERA 8.10
Hitting
Baltimore   Toronto
J.J. Hardy Player Jose Bautista
2 Hits 3
2 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 4
.500 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Baltimore 9 2 17 .257 10 7 6 3 0 2
Toronto 13 1 18 .325 17 7 4 1 2 0