Toronto Blue Jays at Baltimore Orioles

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Toronto Blue Jays

51-59, 25-31 Away

Final
4 - 10

Baltimore Orioles

65-44, 34-25 Home

Jackson Holliday's grand slam lifts the Orioles to a 10-4 victory over the Blue Jays

Holliday, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 draft and baseball's top-ranked prospect at the moment per MLB Pipeline, had been sent down after going 2 for 34 with 18 strikeouts for the Orioles earlier this season. In his first game back, he grounded out twice before connecting for a 439-foot drive with the bases loaded that gave Baltimore an 8-3 lead.

“Just try to keep it simple,” Holliday said. “The last time I was up here, got myself trying to do a little bit too much.”

Colton Cowser also went deep for the Orioles, and Addison Barger homered for Toronto. It was a bittersweet day for Baltimore, which lost All-Star third baseman Jordan Westburg to a broken hand after he was hit by a pitch immediately before Holliday's homer.

Grayson Rodriguez (13-4) allowed three earned runs and six hits in six innings for Baltimore. He struck out eight and walked three.

Paolo Espino (0-1) permitted four runs and five hits in four innings.

Ryan Mountcastle opened the scoring for Baltimore with a two-run triple in the first, and Cowser's second-inning shot made it 3-0. After Barger's solo homer, Gunnar Henderson answered in the bottom of the third with a leadoff triple and scored on Ryan O'Hearn's sacrifice fly.

Barger added an RBI double in the fourth, and after George Springer doubled and scored on a groundout by Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the Blue Jays were within one.

Then the Orioles scored five runs off reliever Yerry Rodríguez in the fifth. Two walks and a hit batter loaded the bases with one out, and Holliday hit an 0-2 delivery onto Eutaw Street at Camden Yards.

“We saw him in spring. I think he hit a couple homers off us in spring too,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. “I know it hasn't started exactly how he wanted, but he's (the) No. 1 prospect for a reason.”

Anthony Santander hit an RBI single later in the inning.

Henderson made two errors at shortstop, bringing his total to seven in his last seven games, but he reached base three times and hit an RBI single in the seventh.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Blue Jays: Schneider said CF Daulton Varsho was taken out after feeling light-headed on a hot day.

Orioles: C James McCann, who stayed in the game Monday after being hit in the face by a pitch, started Wednesday and played the whole game. He used a protective covering while batting.

Blue Jays: Toronto is off Thursday before a road series against the New York Yankees. Kevin Gausman (9-8) starts for the Blue Jays on Friday night against Marcus Stroman (7-5).

Orioles: Baltimore begins a four-game series at Cleveland on Thursday night.

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Matchup Prediction

Orioles: 86.0%

Blue Jays: 14.0%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Jimenez grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Loperfido out at second.
	9th Inning	Jimenez hit for Guerrero Jr.
	9th Inning	Loperfido singled to left.
	9th Inning	De Los Santos grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Smith relieved Kimbrel
	9th Inning	Pache in right field.

Statistics

TOR		BAL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
13	Ground Balls	10
11	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	10
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	13
0	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	7
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	10
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
35	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	1
17	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	2
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	1
11	Fly Balls	21
0	Caught Stealing	0
147	Pitches	173
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
13	Total Bases	24
39	Plate Appearances	45
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
4	Extra Base Hits	5
3.5	Runs Created	11.1
.200	Batting Average	.361
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.371	Slugging Percentage	.667
.286	Secondary Average	.528
.282	On Base Percentage	.467
.653	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.133
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
3.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	12.5
30.0	Batter Rating	67.0
35.0	At Bats Per Home Run	18.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.77	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.84
.171	Isolated Power	.306
0.36	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.17
.103	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.156
.086	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.167
7.0	Runs Produced	20.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.8
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
77.3	MLB Rating	111.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0