An Orioles comeback Wednesday night in Toronto was only enough to leave the game up to their bullpen, which after some tense moments in the middle innings finally yielded in the eighth.
Dillon Tate left a pair of runners in scoring position for Marcos Diplán with one out in the eighth, and a medium-depth sacrifice fly by Randal Grichuk was enough to push across the go-ahead run in the Blue Jays’ 5-4 win at Rogers Centre to hand Toronto the series.
It was tied in the eighth after the Orioles (41-91), trailing 4-2, battled back with a run-scoring single by Austin Wynns in the sixth and an RBI double by Trey Mancini in the seventh.
The deficit that Wynns and Mancini erased was the responsibility of Matt Harvey, who allowed a first-inning home run by Marcus Semien and an eventful fourth inning that featured three runs on four hits and a pair of steals.
He was pulled after 71 pitches through four innings, but the deficit stayed at 4-2 thanks to Conner Greene in the fifth. Tanner Scott finished the sixth for Greene, and Jorge López, pitching a second straight day, stranded two for Scott in a tense seventh.
But Tate didn’t have his best stuff and took the loss for the second time in three games this week against the Blue Jays.
