BALTIMORE — Only three major league pitchers have surrendered more home runs this season than Baltimore right-hander Tyler Wells. Fortunately for the Orioles, they were facing one of them Thursday.
After Danny Jansen’s second home run of the afternoon off Wells in the top of the fifth, Adley Rutschman tied the game with a solo home run off Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Yusei Kikuchi to open the frame’s bottom half. Rutschman’s third hit of the game came an inning later, the second of three straight two-out singles off reliever Yimi García that gave Baltimore a one-run lead it held onto over the final three innings.
Austin Hays, who provided the first of those hits, provided insurance with a solo home run in the eighth.
