Toronto walks off winners against Baltimore

When your 3-4-5 hitters combine to go 1-10, you're probably not going to win many baseball games.

Things might have gotten from bad to worse Sunday afternoon for the Toronto Blue Jays.

I realize the ridiculousness of this; being so elated about the Blue Jays having a 2-9 record instead of a 1-10 record. In the bottom half of the ninth, Britton gave up a leadoff single to Russell Martin, who scored on a two-out single by Devon Travis.

That sucked the air out of the crowd of 40,743, before Morales sent them home happy with his second homer of the year.

"It's big, it really is", Gibbons said.

As it turned out, the ball was hit so hard and reached Jones so fast that he had a play at the plate. He had allowed seven runs on 14 hits through 11.2 innings prior to weekend showdown with the rival Orioles. After six months, it does not seem that Showalter has learned any lesson about when to use the closer in a tie game on the road. "We [essentially] didn't have three guys in the bullpen".

It's been well documented how badly the Blue Jays have struggled thus far, getting off to the worst start in franchise history. Asher made one start at Norfolk, pitching 4 1/3 scoreless innings. With two aggravations of the injury in less than a week, and options limited if having Donaldson serve as DH hasn't helped, the Blue Jays have one viable course of action and it's expected to happen.

After Justin Smoak rocketed a hard-hit lineout to the warning track in center field, a ball deep enough to advance both runners but didn't, Barney entered the game to pinch hit and looped a 1-0 changeup into center field.

The game ultimately resumed with second base umpire Brian Knight working behind home plate.

Francisco Liriano (0-1), who allowed five runs in one-third of an inning in his season-opening loss to Tampa Bay last week, rebounded nicely against Baltimore. "We've had a chance to win everyone of them and we haven't".

Kevin Pillar led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Ezequiel Carrera and advanced to third on a wild pitch.

Toronto starter Marco Estrada threw seven shutout innings of four-hit ball.

Donaldson aggravated a right calf injury in a 2-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night at Rogers Centre. Until Gentry's unlikely ninth inning run, it seemed like it would be the game's only run. If the Jays just focus on making contact, getting on base, and manufacturing runs, they should be just fine.

Depending on what the medical report says, it would be a surprise if Donaldson returns to the lineup any time soon, given his lingering issues.