Jays Complete Three-Game Sweep Of Orioles
Posted May 3, 2009 12:00 pm.
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Canadian Scott Richmond threw seven solid innings and Alex Rios hit a go-ahead home run in the fifth as the Toronto Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 4-3 victory Sunday afternoon.
Richmond, from North Vancouver, B.C., equalled his career high by pitching seven innings and allowed three runs, two earned, while running his record to 4-0 before a crowd of 20,418.
Vernon Wells hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Rod Barajas went 2-for-3 with an RBI double as the Blue Jays (18-9) completed their first three-game sweep this season.
Jesse Carlson took over from Richmond in the eighth inning. Scott Downs, who is the closer with B. J. Ryan on the disabled list, pitched the ninth inning to pick up his third save.
Jeremy Guthrie (2-2) allowed four runs on six hits and a walk in eight innings for the Orioles (9-16), who have lost six in a row and eight of their past nine.
After Wells put the Blue Jays into the 2-0 lead, Luke Scott tied it in the second inning with his fourth homer of the season, also a two-run blast.
The Blue Jays regained the lead on doubles by Lyle Overbay and Barajas in the fourth.
The Orioles tied it 3-3 in the top of the fifth inning on an unearned run as Barajas threw the ball wildly to first on Nick Markakis’s dribbler in front of the plate and Cesar Izturis scored from second.
Rios put the Blue Jays up for good in the bottom of the frame with his second homer of the season.
Orioles manager Dave Trembley was ejected from the game in the middle of the fifth inning for arguing a third strike on Aubrey Huff. It was his second ejection of the season and the eighth of his career.
Before the game, the Orioles put relief pitcher Dennis Sarfate on the disabled list with a circulatory problem in his right middle finger and called up reliever Bob McCrory from triple-A Norfolk. Sarfate is scheduled to have an angiogram in Baltimore on Monday.
