I hate to be the bearer of bad news, folks, but the Orioles aren’t going to go 161-1.
The Birds’ four-game win streak dissipated Wednesday afternoon, with the Blue Jays staving off a sweep in a 5-3 decision. Matt Shoemaker and Randal Grichuk were a two-man wrecking crew for Toronto, the former tossing seven scoreless innings and the latter blasting two homers and scoring three runs, and a frantic ninth-inning comeback attempt by the O’s fell just short.
The afternoon got off to an inauspicious start when, on what should’ve been the third out of the first inning, third baseman Rio Ruiz sailed a throw wildly over Chris Davis’s head.