Big innings have eluded the Orioles offense for weeks, but they managed to string a pair together in Sunday's season finale against the Toronto Blue Jays at Buffalo's Sahlen Field to finish the year with a 7-5 victory.
Trailing 4-1 in the fourth inning after a pair of home runs chased rookie starter Keegan Akin, the Orioles tied the game when Cedric Mullins drove in two runs with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Austin Hays.
They pulled ahead in a three-run fifth inning in which Rio Ruiz had a run-scoring double, Hanser Alberto grounded out to push across a second and Pat Valaika had a single to drive in a third.
Sunday's victory meant the Orioles finish at 25-35, which would have been a 68-94 pace in a 162-game season, and finished ahead of the last-place Boston Red Sox.
It was a far fall from the 40-game mark of the season, when the Orioles went to New York with the playoffs within reach.
