It was Pride Night at the Rogers Centre, but the Toronto Blue Jays did not have much to celebrate when the top of the ninth inning came along.

The Blue Jays welcomed the Baltimore Orioles for a three-game set, with former Jays starter Chris Bassitt getting a video tribute after his three-year run with the organization. On the hill, it was Trey Yesavage for the Jays while Brandon Young got the nod for the Orioles.

Both bird teams exchanged runs in the first inning, with Adley Rutschman sending a solo shot over the centre field wall to open up the scoring. He smacked a low Yesavage fastball 404 feet, and after a quick umpire review, the call was upheld. Toronto bounced back with a run of its own in the bottom half, with George Springer leading the way with a double to right field. He would later score on a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. sac fly.

Yesavage and Young would cruise until the fifth inning, where the Jays put a couple more runs on the board.

Kazuma Okamoto led the bottom half of the frame with a single up the middle, and it was catcher Brandon Valenzuela who brought him home with a no-doubter over the right field wall. The Mexican product pounced on a middle-middle slider from the Orioles right-hander, sending the ball 106.2 MPH off the bat and 417 feet, a new distance record for the rookie backstop.

However, Baltimore wouldn’t stay on their heels for long.

A Jackson Holliday double and a walk to Gunnar Henderson put pressure on early, and Rutschman would bring both home with a double of his own to tie the ballgame. A Jeremiah Jackson single and a Coby Mayo home run would spell the end of Yesavage’s night, with the O’s leading Toronto 6-3 when Adam Macko entered the game.

For the Blue Jays, they would limp the rest of the way. The Jays’ bats mustered just one hit through the remaining innings, while the Orioles tacked on seven more runs before the end of the night.

Macko was the lone bullpen arm to go through unscathed, tossing 1.1 innings of relief with zero hits allowed. The southpaw walked one and struck out three, dropping his ERA to 1.80.

Connor Seabold and Yariel Rodriguez did not find the same fate. Seabold allowed four hits and three earned runs through his inning of work, while the Cuban product allowed four hits, one walk, and two earned runs (four total – a throwing error from Okamoto scored two) before he was lifted from the game for backstop Tyler Heineman, who retired Holliday on a lineout to second baseman Ernie Clement.

Overall, the Blue Jays mustered eight hits on the day but couldn’t find ways to plate any runs against the Orioles’ bullpen. On top of the rough outing, Daulton Varsho was lifted from the game in the bottom of the fourth with wrist discomfort.

The Jays will look to bounce back against the O’s today with a bullpen game. Braydon Fisher gets the nod with Spencer Miles likely pitching the bulk of the day.

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