Toronto 11, Baltimore 3
When: 1:35 PM ET, Sunday, April 13, 2014
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland
Temperature:
78°
Umpires:
Home -
Chris Conroy, 1B -
Jordan Baker, 2B -
Jerry Meals, 3B -
Paul Emmel
Attendance:
39281
By SportsDirect Inc.
Blue Jays 11, Orioles 3: Colby Rasmus homered for the second time in as many contests and drove in three runs as visiting Toronto took two of three from Baltimore.
Rasmus, Adam Lind and Edwin Encarnacion tallied three hits apiece while Brett Lawrie and Jose Bautista also went deep for the Blue Jays, who amassed their highest offensive output of the season in a 17-hit attack after scoring a total of three runs (two unearned) over the first two games of the series. Mark Buehrle (3-0) yielded a run on five hits over seven innings and has won each of his first three starts for the first time since 2002.
Ubaldo Jimenez (0-3) gave up five runs on 10 hits over 5 1/3 innings and has lost three straight outings to open the season for the first time in his career. Chris Davis and Matt Wieters hit back-to-back homers in the eighth inning off Blue Jays reliever Esmil Rogers while Adam Jones knocked in Baltimore’s only run off Buehrle in the first on an RBI groundout.
Rasmus ignited a struggling Toronto offense in the first when he crushed a 3-2 slider into the seats in right and the Blue Jays added a pair of runs in the fourth as Lind scored on a groundout and Jonathan Diaz executed a suicide-squeeze bunt on a head-high splitter. Lawrie added a solo shot in the sixth and Jimenez was pulled one batter later when Ryan Goins ended his day with a hard-hit single off the wall in right.
Reliever Josh Stinson fared no better than Jimenez and Toronto broke the game open against him, getting a two-run single by Rasmus and a two-run double from Encarnacion to complete the five-run sixth. The Blue Jays continued the offensive onslaught in the eighth when Bautista jumped all over a fastball from Stinson and deposited it into the left-field stands for his fifth home run of the season.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Blue Jays LF Melky Cabrera went 2-for-6 to extend his season-opening hit streak to 13 games, passing Vernon Wells for the longest such streak to open a season by a Blue Jay since 2006. … Jimenez has allowed 33 baserunners in his first 16 innings as an Oriole since signing a four-year contract worth $50 million in the offseason. … Toronto 2B Maicer Izturis left the game in the bottom of the first due to a left knee sprain and was placed on the 15-day disabled list after the game. ... Jones recorded his 1,000th career hit.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
17 |
3 |
30 |
.415 |
15 |
3 |
11 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
| Baltimore
|
8 |
2 |
17 |
.222 |
12 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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