TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays wasted a quality start by Drew Hutchison and fell back to the .500 mark by dropping an 11-4 decision to the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night at Rogers Centre.
Hutchison worked six solid innings and left the game with a 3-2 lead. The Orioles attacked the Toronto bullpen by scoring five runs in the seventh and adding four more in the eighth to turn the game into a rout.
Jonathan Schoop homered and David Lough had three of the Orioles' 14 hits. Bud Norris (1-2) allowed five hits, three earned runs and a walk over six innings as Baltimore (11-10) took the rubber game of the three-game series.
Nelson Cruz scored twice and drove in two runs while Chris Davis and Adam Jones had three RBIs apiece. Dioner Navarro and Colby Rasmus homered for the Blue Jays (11-11), who had seven hits on the night.
The Blue Jays nearly opened the scoring in the first inning. Melky Cabrera reached on a walk and got the wave home when Edwin Encarnacion hit a double off the wall in left field. Cabrera was tagged out by Matt Wieters on a close play at the plate.
Wieters picked up Baltimore's first hit in the next inning with a one-out double off Hutchison. The 23-year-old right-hander, who had nine strikeouts for the second straight game, responded by fanning J.J. Hardy and Ryan Flaherty.
