Orioles vs. Blue Jays Game Highlights (5/21/23) | MLB Highlights

The Orioles today going for a sweep of Toronto they're 30 and 16 it's a second best record in baseball right now to a lot of pressure on Gaussman today. And they wanted him to be the stopper. Let's be honest this team could really use a win. You've got to like your chances with Kevin Gaussman on the back game. Kramer is twenty seven years old and he has pitched well lately. He's thrown the ball very well in the month of May. He's won all three of his starts the game. It's been a good homestand for him. And a Blue Jays just need to string some hits together today. Here's Boba Shett hitting three thirteen runners going. The throw down and safe. Second. He's got it but he's got no play. Runners on the corners and brings up Vlade. Nobody out. Runners at first and third Guerrero goes down on a high fastball and D.C. Kramer gets a big strikeout for his first down. The Blue Jays are hitting one hundred with runners in scoring position five for 50 the last five games. The Shetts on the run it's a strike on a fastball and it's a strike of a throw from McCann. A strike him out throw him out inning ending double play. So they start first and third and cannot cash in Chapman and an even three hundred right now which is almost like when the calendar flip from April to May was player of the month in the American League in April. It's been a much tougher go in May getting ready for the bottom of the first Matt Chapman is sitting fifth in the lineup and maybe he's just decided if I touch everybody's bats there's got to be there's got to be hits in here somewhere. A one one pitch. There's a high drive. This is a good sign. All that Chapman the Blue Jays on top early and mentioned and this home run is his first home run since April 18th. So he touched all the right bats in that. That's right. Two on with one out for Kiermaier. And that's why it's especially important because Kevin Kiermaier comes to play as the hottest Blue Jay hitter on his homestead and he chases a fastball here. The third baseline nothing he can do with it. So the funny thing is they've had two hits with a runner in scoring position already today but neither one has driven in a run. They're looking for something loud here from Bo Bichette. Bichette pops one up in the right field. This is Santander and that is the inning. Joey Ortiz Cedric Mullins Adderley Rutschmann to the plate as Ortiz drills one in the left field well struck and Lucas won't get there. That's off the wall and a hop and Joey Ortiz jolts into second base with his first extra base hit as a big leaguer. Mullins through the left side base hit and Ortiz will be held at third with Lucas playing shallow. His major league debut May 21st two thousand twenty two a one year anniversary since Adderley Rutschmann came to the Orioles. Things have changed around here and Rutschmann will win this round with a ground ball to second base a fabulous play by Merrifield to get him. Rutschmann will get an RBI and the game is tied at one. And Anthony Santander rolls one to Guerrero throw to first will not be there. Santander picks up an RBI and the Orioles have a two run third inning. The Orioles have had some good at bats. There goes the runner and the pitch is hit high in the air to deep left center. Kiermaier is back. He jumps. He catch by Kevin Kiermaier. Boy oh boy he timed that perfectly. You're getting ready for the bottom of the fifth going through his warm up pitches. Dan I.S. Sonia who's the third base home today. He is the crew chief came out while Kramer was on the mound and did a bit of an examination. But there's some gamesmanship going on. Kevin Gossman now getting ready for the top of the six. And remember we showed you video of Dean Kramer getting checked by the umpire. They checked his glove and now Brandon Hyde has come out and he's talking to the home plate umpires like Hyde asked I.S. Sonia to go out and check Gossman. Brandon Hyde said I want Gossman checked. And so he's going to go out and go through all of this and back and forth now. And knowing that a lot of the bullpen is down for the day hoping that he gets through six and that you can manager Brandon Hyde can piece together the last three. And a good looking cutter strikes out Merrifield. Now a double play as the inning is Alejandro Kirk takes a strike. Base hit. Make sure it got over the head of Ortiz so he will stop it second. I'm happy with the location of that pitch and that's going to be the end of the afternoon. So the Blue Jays into the Orioles pen a couple of men on as they threaten again here in the bottom of the six. Kiermaier to short could be two. There's one and there is another inning ending. Double play third inning ending double play of the game for the Orioles and Michael Gibbons on the mound his first game in an Oriole uniform in three years. And now an intentional walk to Brandon Beltz to load them up for Matt Chapman. This is more about a double play situation than it is about bringing Matt Chapman to the plate. It's in the young scores and the sack fly ties it. So two down and Gaussman at one hundred and ten pitches will stay to face Adam Frazier in the air out to left field. Merrifield glides to his left routine fly ball out number three. How about the superb work by Kevin Gaussman against Baltimore here in Toronto. We only do extras. Jorge Mateo the automatic runner at second base Nate Pearson still amount of Orioles with a top of the order up and bullets drills the first pitch in the right field and the Orioles will take the lead on Cedric Mullins fourth hit on this Sunday afternoon. That didn't take long. Swung on and missed throw down and out at second is Mullins golf to right but playable. So the Orioles get one he's going to leave in both who's throwing thirty one pitches and what Merrifield is the batter. And now the go ahead run for the Orioles down at third base and Austin Hayes is up at the plate. Hayes punches one in his center field and the Orioles retake the lead. It is a three hit day for Austin Hayes and Henderson goes through the middle for another base hit. Frazier had a hole to ensure it wasn't caught. And now the Orioles are going to use their final bench player. So they are pulling out every stop here in the 11th and Valverde lines a base hit in the left center field off the bench. He's going to drive in a pair as Hayes will score and Terran Valverde comes through drilled right center field by Mullins. And that is a five hit day for Cedric Henderson is home. Valverde racing around third Mullins in the second five hits for Cedric Mullins and a five run eleventh inning explosion for the Baltimore Orioles. Improbably the Orioles are one out away from what would be tied for their largest margin of victory in a game this year. Springer pops it up. This should do it. It's going to be Cedric Mullins ending his five hit day with a fly ball to seal an Orioles sweep in Toronto.