Orioles snap Blue Jays’ 4-game streak with 4-2 victory

Baltimore is 3-5 in its last eight games and the staff allowed two or fewer runs in each of the three wins but coughed up a total of 44 runs in the five setbacks.

Tillman (10-1) allowed four runs and five hits in five laborious innings. The Duke product allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings to earn the win. For most of the season, he has pitched better than his 4-8 record. The Orioles had dropped five of seven and were desperate for some kind of momentum swing which they received from starter Yovani Gallardo.

Flaherty fills in nicely: No. 9 hitter Ryan Flaherty, starting at third base while Manny Machado served the first game of a four-game suspension, drove in two runs, including an RBI double that gave the Orioles a 6-4 lead and helped chase Stroman. The California native yielded three home runs in back-to-back starts on May 29 and June 3 but gave up a combined four blasts in his other 12 outings.

The Orioles got things started in the bottom of the first inning when Chris Davis hit an RBI single to center field to get the O’s on the board.

“Made some pitches when I needed to and the boys picked me up, picked me up big time today”, Tillman said.

Schoop had to wait until the ball came down, so he got a late break off second base. Machado steamed around second and got into no man’s land between second and third. Hopefully the Orioles can keep finding ways to get back on the horse right when you start to get bummed out about them.

The Baltimore Orioles look to maintain their grip on first in the East with a win versus the Toronto Blue Jays.

Machado moved to third on an infield out, and as Dickey’s knuckleball eluded catcher Josh Thole for a passed ball, Machado scored for a 2-0 lead.

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, second from back right, speaks with home plate umpire Dan Iassogna, front left, after Toronto’s Kevin Pillar struck out in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Saturday, June 18, 2016. “Sometimes it works for you and sometimes against you”. And he was close to being chased from the game early Sunday after he allowed two-run homers to Troy Tulowitzki and Devon Travis in the second inning. Had he remained at second Travis had a very good chance of tying the game. Machado doubled, but as Schoop ran around third, his third base coach Bobby Dickerson tried to stop him.

The Arizona Diamondbacks were too strong for the Philadelphia Phillies, winning 4-1, while the Los Angeles Angels smashed the Oakland Athletics 7-1, the Boston Red Sox were 6-2 victors over the Seattle Mariners and the Houston Astros won 5-4 over the Cincinnati Reds courtesy of George Springer’s walk-off single in the 11th. Ezequiel Carrera got a glove on the ball but did not make the catch.