Baltimore Orioles vs Toronto Blue Jays Match Player Stats On Jun 29, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 29, 2017

TORONTO -- Ubaldo Jimenez struck out eight over eight innings, Jonathan Schoop and Caleb Joseph each had an RBI, and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0 Thursday night.

Jimenez (3-3) allowed two hits and one walk to earn his second win in the past three starts. The right-hander threw 71 strikes among 98 pitches in reducing his ERA to 6.48.

Brad Brach took over the ninth for Orioles pitched around a one-out single by Russell Martin to earn his 15th save of the season.

By winning the rubber match of the three-game series, the Orioles (39-39} took a 9-3 lead their season series with the Blue Jays (37-41) and returned to .500 for the season.

Toronto starter J.A. Happ (2-5) allowed eight hits, two walks and two runs over 6 1/3 innings.

The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the third on a sacrifice fly by Schoop. It scored Ruben Tejada, who led off with a single and took third on a double by Joey Rickard.

Baltimore added a run in the sixth. Schoop led off the inning with a single to left and was thrown out trying for a double by Ezequiel Carrera. Adam Jones singled, Mark Trumbo flied out to the wall in left, and after a wild pitch, Trey Mancini walked and Joseph hit an RBI single to right.

Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar crashed into the wall in right-center on Tejada's drive to lead off the seventh inning before Rickard singled to left to end Happ's night.

Dominic Leone replaced the left-hander and retired the final two batters of the inning and threw a perfect eighth inning.

Jimenez set down nine straight batters before Pillar doubled to right-center with two out in the eighth, the second hit of the game for the Blue Jays. Ryan Goins, who doubled in the third, fouled out to third to end the inning.

Toronto's Ryan Tepera pitched a perfect top of the ninth.

NOTES: Orioles C Welington Castillo was a late scratch from the lineup Thursday because of a left knee sprain. His place behind the plate and in the No. 7 spot in the batting order was taken by C Caleb Joseph. ... Orioles LHP Zach Britton (left forearm strain) struck out two batters in a scoreless inning for Double-A Bowie on Thursday as he continues his rehab assignment. ... The Orioles return home Friday to play the Rays in a three-game series with RHP Chris Tillman (1-5, 8.39 ERA) scheduled to start the opener against Tampa Bay RHP Jake Faria (3-0, 2.10). ... Toronto will start RHP Marco Estrada (4-6, 4.89) against Boston RHP Doug Fister (0-1, 4.50) on Friday in the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Red Sox.