Guerrero Hits 2 HRs, Ray fans 10 As Blue Jays Beat O’s 7-3

TORONTO (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. deed 2 homers and raised his play full to 38, Robbie Ray pitched 7 innings for his archetypal triumph successful six starts, and the Toronto Blue Jays bushed the Baltimore Orioles 7-3 Monday night.

Guerrero deed a solo location tally disconnected right-hander Chris Ellis successful the 4th inning and a three-run blast disconnected righty Marcos Diplán successful the seventh. It was the seventh multi-homer crippled of Guerrero’s vocation and his 5th this season.

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Bo Bichette deed a game-tying azygous disconnected Dillon Tate (0-4) successful the sixth, and Teoscar Hernández followed with a two-run treble arsenic the Blue Jays rallied to triumph their 3rd straight.

Toronto’s George Springer went 1 for 2 with a walk, scored twice, was deed by a transportation and stole a basal successful a engaged instrumentality to the lineup aft missing 13 games due to the fact that of a sprained near knee.

Springer, who was activated disconnected the injured database earlier the game, is expected to beryllium constricted to designated hitter for now. He was injured Aug. 14 portion trying to marque a leaping drawback astatine the partition successful Seattle.

Ryan Mountcastle homered and had 2 RBIs for the Orioles. The nonaccomplishment dropped Baltimore to 3-24 successful August.

Toronto’s Trent Thornton gave up a tally and allowed 3 batters to scope successful the ninth, including a popular azygous from Anthony Santander that bounced disconnected the mound. Jordan Romano came connected to grounds the last 2 outs, earning his 14th prevention successful 15 chances.

After matching his vocation precocious by striking retired 14 White Sox batters successful his erstwhile start, Ray fanned 10 Orioles, reaching treble digits for the 3rd consecutive crippled and eighth clip this season. In doing so, Ray reached 202 strikeouts for the season, reclaiming the AL pb from New York Yankees right-hander Gerrit Cole.

Ray (10-5) allowed 2 runs and 4 hits. The left-hander had taken nary decisions successful 5 consecutive starts contempt pitching astatine slightest six innings and allowing 2 runs oregon less successful each outing, thing conscionable 8 different pitchers person done wrong a azygous season.

Ray needed conscionable 1 transportation to grounds his archetypal retired of the game. Two pitches later, however, helium was trailing, aft Mountcastle connected for his 25th location run.

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Mountcastle enactment the Orioles successful beforehand with an RBI azygous successful the sixth, but Tate couldn’t clasp connected successful the bottommost half.

Making his 2nd vocation start, Ellis allowed 1 tally and 2 hits successful 4 2/3 innings. The tally came connected Guerrero’s leadoff homer successful the fourth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: With Springer activated, Toronto optioned OF Josh Palacios to Triple-A Buffalo.

Orioles: OF Cedric Mullins was held retired of the starting lineup, but pinch-hit successful the ninth, striking retired to extremity the game.

ROSTER MOVES

Baltimore recalled OF Ryan McKenna and RHP Zack Burdi from Triple-A Norfolk.

UP NEXT

Blue Jays LHP Hyun Jin Ryu (12-7, 3.88) starts Tuesday against Orioles LHP Keegan Akin (1-8, 7.26). Ryu is 4-0 successful six vocation games against Baltimore, including 3-0 successful 3 starts this season. Akin bushed the Angels past Thursday for his archetypal triumph of the season.

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