Guerrero reaches base 5 times as AL-best Blue Jays beat Orioles

TORONTO (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached base five times, Myles Straw doubled home the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-1 on Friday night.

Guerrero raised his average to .305 by going 3-for-3 with three singles. He was walked twice, once intentionally.

Daulton Varsho hit a two-run, pinch-hit double off Shawn Dubin in a three-run eighth for AL-best Toronto.

Braydon Fisher (5-0) got two outs in the sixth. The Blue Jays are 64-4 when they score five or more.

Orioles left-hander Trevor Rogers exited after five innings because of a sore toe on his left foot. He allowed one unearned run on three hits to lower his ERA to 1.43 in 16 starts.

Dietrich Enns (3-3) replaced Rogers and retired the first two batters in the sixth. Isiah Kiner-Falefa reached on an infield single and went to second on a throwing error before Straw's double that made it 2-1.

Samuel Basallo led off the Baltimore third with a double and scored on a one-out single by Jackson Holliday.

Toronto tied it in the fifth. Davis Schneider drew a two-out walk and scored when center fielder Colton Cowser overran Guerrero's 115-mph single.

Toronto's Chris Bassitt allowed one run and two hits in five innings. He walked one and struck out six.

Baltimore's Tyler O'Neill started at designated hitter and went 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts after being activated off the injured list before the game. O'Neill (right wrist) last played Aug. 5.

Key moment

Cowser made a headlong diving catch to retire Ty France in the sixth.

Key stat

Baltimore lost for the second time in 10 September games.

Up next

Blue Jays RHP Max Scherzer (5-3, 4.36 ERA) is scheduled to face Orioles RHP Tomoyuki Sagano (10-8, 4.51) on Saturday.

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