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Instant Reaction: Blue Jays reach .500 in comeback victory over Orioles
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Ryley Delaney
May 30, 2026, 07:00 EDTUpdated: May 29, 2026, 23:08 EDT
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Welcome back, 2025 Toronto Blue Jays.
On Friday evening, the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles in comeback fashion, winning 6-5. With this win, they’ve reached the .500 mark for the first time since early April when they were 4-4. Let’s take a look at what went on in this one!
Adam Macko started the second game of the series, departing in the second inning after giving up three hits and striking out a batter. With two on, Austin Voth got the final out of the second inning, but Voth wasn’t as lucky in the bottom of the third.
He gave up a lead off single, then two walks to load the bases with no outs. A walk and a sacrifice fly drove in two, but he avoided significant damage. In the bottom of the fourth, Jackson Holliday hit a home run, giving the Orioles a 3-0 lead, then Voth gave up back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the fifth to put the Blue Jays in a five-run hole.
But the 2025 Blue Jays returned in the top of the seventh. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. led off the inning with a single, then was driven in by Kazuma Okamoto’s two-run blast, his team-leading 12th of the season.
Now down 5-2, Varsho hit a double to give the Blue Jays another base runner, bringing up Charles McAdoo. For the first time since 2023, a player debuting in a Blue Jays’ uniform went deep in their first big league game to bring the Jays to within one.
That drove Trevor Rogers from the game, and the next three Blue Jays were retired. They completed the comeback in the top of the eighth, as George Springer and Ernie Clement hit back-to-back singles, bringing Guerrero Jr. to the plate. He hit a two-RBI double, giving the Jays a 6-5 lead, one they didn’t relinquish.

Takeaways…

It’s easy to draw parallels between this season and last, and it was about this time last year that the 2025 Blue Jays took off. One of the most notable games came on May 28th, 2025, as Bo Bichette hit a two-run home run in the top of the ninth. A day later, the Jays won 12-0, bringing their record to 28-28.
That’s one of the defining moments of the 2025 season, I’d argue one of three, and it began a stretch where they went 13-3. When all is said and done, we could look at Friday’s game as the defining moment of the 2026 season. And don’t look now, but the Jays are 11-5 since Daulton Varsho’s walk off grand slam.
As you can imagine, this five-run deficit is the largest the Blue Jays have come back from this season. A big reason why they were able to do it was thanks to scoreless outings thrown by Connor Seabold, Mason Fluharty, and Braydon Fisher. This was Fisher’s first career save, bringing his ERA to 2.48.
Through five, the Blue Jays had just one hit, a triple by Daulton Varsho. In the final four innings, the Blue Jays mustered nine hits, six of which were of the extra-base variety. On top of the triple, Varsho hit a double, while Brandon Valenzuela, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Nathan Lukes all hit doubles as well. Kazuma Okamoto and Charles McAdoo each hit two-run home runs, a big reason why the Jays overcame the deficit.
With this victory, the Blue Jays have lost just two series in their last 10 no matter what happens on Saturday and Sunday. A win on Saturday guarantees they leave Baltimore with a .500 record at the very least. Saturday’s game has a 4:05 PM ET start time, with Trey Yesavage on the mound.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.
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