{"id":711490,"date":"2026-05-29T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:33:16","slug":"bases-loaded-walk-lifts-the-blue-jays-to-a-2-1-victory-over-the-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711490\/","title":{"rendered":"Bases-loaded walk lifts the Blue Jays to a 2-1 victory over the Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Yohendrick Pi\u00f1ango drew a bases-loaded walk from Anthony Nunez in the eighth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>George Springer led off the eighth with a double, then was bunted over to third. After an intentional walk to Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Nunez (2-2) walked Daulton Varsho to load the bases.<\/p>\n<p>Pi\u00f1ango came up as a pinch-hitter and walked to force in the tiebreaking run. Catcher Adley Rutschman tried to help Nunez by using two challenges during that plate appearance, but both were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Hoffman (4-3) won in relief. Louis Varland got the final four outs for his eighth save.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez homered in the third for Toronto, and Coby Mayo went deep for the Orioles in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles had men on first and second with two out in the eighth after Pete Alonso&#8217;s comebacker bounced high in the air for an infield single. Reliever Tyler Rogers was apparently hurt on that play and left the game.<\/p>\n<p>But Varland didn&#8217;t even have to retire a batter to escape the inning because Alonso was inexplicably picked off first by catcher Brandon Valenzuela.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Chris Bassitt delivers during the third...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780018396_278_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Chris Bassitt delivers during the third inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Thursday, May 28, 2026, in Baltimore. Credit: AP\/Stephanie Scarbrough<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays won for the 10th time in their last 14 games. The Orioles lost for the second time in seven.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto starter Patrick Corbin allowed a run and four hits in five-plus innings. Chris Bassitt permitted a run and four hits in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore sends Trevor Rogers (2-6) to the mound Friday night. The Blue Jays had not yet announced a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Yohendrick Pi\u00f1ango drew a bases-loaded walk from Anthony Nunez in the eighth inning to lift the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125,70,2524],"class_list":["post-711490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-wires-bot"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116655292721694164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}