Baltimore @ Toronto preview

Last Meeting ( Sep 24, 2019 ) Baltimore 11, Toronto 4

Baltimore's Trey Mancini is the reigning American League Player of the Week and is on his way to winning it again as the Orioles visit the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday for the rubber match of their three-game series. Mancini had a career-high five hits (5-for-5) in Tuesday's 11-4 victory and is batting .471 with four home runs and 17 RBIs during an 11-game hitting streak.

Toronto, which is 9-9 during a season-ending 22-game stretch against American League East teams, is 10-8 versus Baltimore in a season series involving teams with a combined 200 losses. Blue Jays rookie Jacob Waguespack takes the ball Wednesday opposite Gabriel Ynoa, who is 0-2 with a 4.40 ERA in four games (two starts) versus Toronto this season after losing his last outing. Waguespack faces Baltimore for the first time after going 2-4 with a 5.88 ERA in nine games (six starts) versus Boston, the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay. "It’s tough … but you’ve got to go out and play and pitch and make plays,” Waguespack told reporters about the challenging AL East. “We’re major leaguers just like them. Everybody puts their pants on the same way, so to speak, so you just keep battling and learn and grow from your mistakes.”

TV: 7:07 p.m. ET, MASN 2 (Baltimore), Sportsnet, TVA (Toronto)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Orioles RH Gabriel Ynoa (1-9, 5.65 ERA) vs. Blue Jays RH Jacob Waguespack (4-4. 4.75)

Ynoa allowed three runs and six hits (two homers) over 6 1/3 innings of an 8-4 loss to Toronto on Thursday. The 26-year-old Dominican has recorded two of his three quality starts in 2019 in his last three turns but is 0-8 with a 6.12 ERA in 12 starts this season. Cavan Biggio, who extended his on-base streak to 25 games with a walk Tuesday, and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. have two home runs in seven at-bats apiece against Ynoa after each went deep last week.

Waguespack is 0-4 with a 5.67 ERA over his last six starts, facing the Yankees (twice), Tampa Bay, Atlanta (twice) and the Los Angeles Dodgers during that span. The 25-year-old Texan yielded three runs and four hits (two homers) with six strikeouts over five innings of Toronto's 4-3 victory at Yankee Stadium on Friday. Waguespack has permitted 71 hits and 27 walks while striking out 58 across 72 innings.

WALK-OFFS

1. Baltimore SS Jonathan Villar (158) is one of five players to appear in every game this season, joining Kansas City's Whit Merrifield (158) and Jorge Soler (158), Oakland's Marcus Semien (157) and Miami's Starlin Castro (157).

2. Blue Jays SS Bo Bichette (concussion) has missed the last five contests since being hit in the helmet by a Ynoa pitch Thursday.

3. The Orioles have homered in 18 straight games - two shy of the club record set in 1998.

PREDICTION: Blue Jays 3, Orioles 0