{"id":719613,"date":"2026-06-07T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/719613\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:45:14","slug":"blue-jays-and-orioles-play-to-decide-series-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/719613\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays and Orioles play to decide series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (31-34, third in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (31-34, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Sunday, 1:37 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Shane Baz<\/a> (3-5, 4.29 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 63 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman<\/a> (4-4, 3.48 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -140, Orioles +118; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles meet on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 18-14 in home games and 31-34 overall. Blue Jays hitters are batting a collective .249, the sixth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Baltimore has a 31-34 record overall and a 12-19 record in road games. The Orioles have gone 17-30 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Sunday is the seventh time these teams meet this season. The season series is tied 3-3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ernie Clement<\/a> leads the Blue Jays with a .306 batting average, and has 19 doubles, a triple, six home runs, eight walks and 25 RBIs. Nathan Lukes<\/a> is 13 for 37 with a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Taylor Ward<\/a> has 16 doubles and two home runs for the Orioles. Pete Alonso<\/a> is 13 for 41 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .276 batting average, 5.23 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Orioles: 6-4, .281 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Daulton Varsho: day-to-day (wrist), Lazaro Estrada: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Lenyn Sosa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Tommy Nance<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Dylan Cease: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Orioles: Samuel Basallo<\/a>: day-to-day (abdominal), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Chris Bassitt<\/a>: day-to-day (back), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dean Kremer<\/a>: 60-Day IL (quadricep), Dylan Beavers: 10-Day IL (oblique), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cade Povich: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Helsley<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles (31-34, third in the AL East) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (31-34, fourth in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[6081,3426,383,143,47,2538,5,82,913,6130,75686,584,4619,581,387,389,6646,19,381,4,8678,125,74,109,7326,5144,5694,31700,70,2077],"class_list":["post-719613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-addison-barger","tag-alejandro-kirk","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-dean-kremer","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-jose-berrios","tag-kevin-gausman","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-lukes","tag-orioles","tag-pete-alonso","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-shane-baz","tag-taylor-ward","tag-tommy-nance","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116708188034625102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719613","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=719613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}