The Baltimore Orioles swept both ends of their doubleheader with the Toronto Blue Jays (63-46) on Tuesday after winning the nightcap by a score of 3-2. The win was Baltimore’s fifth in a row and dropped Toronto from their perch as the best team in MLB. Currently the Blue Jays have the third best record in MLB behind the Milwaukee Brewers (64-43) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (63-45).
The game was tightly contested until the eighth inning when we had a little bit of Gunnar in our life, a little bit if Adley by his side and a little bit of Andrew was all we needed (apologies to Lou Bega). Gunnar Henderson hit a one out double and scored the eventual winning run on Adley Rutschman‘s double. Andrew Kittredge (2-2), who induced a double play to get out of a two on and one out situation in the Toronto half of the inning, was credited with the win.
Adley go-ahead ribbie
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— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) July 30, 2025
Doing His Job
Starter Brandon Young gave the club a quality start, surrendering 2 runs on 6 hits while walking 2 and striking out 6 over 6.0 innings of work. He got out of a two-out bases loaded jam in the first and escaped a one-out bases loaded issue in the second having given up just a single run. With the game tied at two upon his exit, Young received a no-decision for his effort.
Holding Your Breath In The Ninth
The Orioles’ bullpen was in such a shape that formerly DFA’d Corbin Martin was called upon to get the save in the ninth. It was only the second time that Baltimore used him in the ninth and thenthirdtime in his career. Martin opened the inning by hitting Ernie Clement and walking Tyler Heinemen. A Myles Straw sacrifice bunt advanced the runners to second and third with one out. He struck out Nathan Lukes looking on 5 pitches and got Bo Bichette to strike out swinging on 6 pitches; the final strike appeared to be above the strike zone but Bichette swung nonetheless. Martin earned his first career save.
The bullpens certainly saw as much traffic as the US-Canadian border crossing at Rainbow Bridge. Chad Green pitched the seventh inning in Game 1 and gave up 4 runs on 4 hits, 2 that were homeruns. Seranthony Dominguez was traded to the Blue Jays in between games and just crossed over to another locker room and bullpen. Green was DFA’d to open a roster spot for Dominguez. Dominguez pitched the seventh inning in Game 2 against his former team. The shuffling was so hectic that the number 8 on the back of Dominguez’s #48 jersey was put on upside down.
Seranthony Dominguez has an upside down 8 on his jersey because of how quickly they had to get him his Blue Jays gear after being traded over by the Orioles
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— Baseball Is Dead (@baseballisdead_) July 30, 2025
The Chesapeake Baysox also saw such bullpen swaping because as luck would have it, Toronto’s AA team the New Hampshire Fisher Cats were playing the Baysox and Juaron Watts-Brown, the player Baltimore received in the Dominguez trade, just had to cross over into a new locker room and bullpen.
A Wild Run On The Bases
Baltimore scored two runs in the fourth. The inning began normally with a one out single by Ramon Laureano. Ryan O’Hearn the hit a ball to left field that bounced off the wall near the foul pole and rolled to the wall near the expanded Splash Zone for a RBI triple. O’Hearn was hoping to get the green light from third-base coach Buck Britton because as he said, “I haven’t had a major league in-the-parker in my career, so I thought it was maybe a shot when I saw it kick off that wall like that. But I’ll take a triple. Those are rare, too.”
Ryan told Buck “I wanted it”
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— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) July 29, 2025
Laureano was the lone Oriole with multiple hits in Game 2.
2025 Record: 50-58
Next Game: Wed. 7/30 @ 12:35 pm vs. Toronto Blue Jays