O's game blog: Chris Davis has 17 homers against Toronto since 2012

As he looks for his second homer of the 2014 season, Chris Davis probably figures he's playing the right opponent tonight to get one. In 38 games and 138 at-bats against Toronto pitching since the start of the 2012 season, Davis has hit 17 homers. Davis hit .393 with four doubles, nine homers and 17 RBIs against the Jays in 2012. Last season, he hit .299 with seven doubles, seven homers and 19 RBIs against Toronto. In the three earlier games this year he went 2-for-10 with one homer and one RBI. He connected off Esmil Rogers on April 13. Davis went 11 games into this season before hitting that first homer and has now gone six games since then without a longball. By the way, Adam Jones has 14 homers against Toronto since the start of 2012 and no other player in baseball has as many as 10 against the Jays in that time. Jones is a hot hitter lately. He is 10-for-21 (.476) with two doubles and four RBIs over his last five games. Davis, meanwhile, went 1-for-12 in Boston and has gone 10 straight games without a multi-hit game since April 8. The Orioles did not get much offense when they played Toronto earlier at Camden Yards. In that three-game series, the Orioles scored just five runs total going 22-for-108 (.204) in that series. They went 3-for-20 (.150) with runners in scoring position. Toronto won the series opener 2-0, then the O's won 2-1 in 12 innings before losing 11-3 in the series finale. The Orioles are 8-11 in their last 19 games in Toronto. The Birds have hit just one homer their last six games, three in the last nine games and have hit just 10 on the year to rank 29th in the majors, ahead of only Kansas City with six. The average number of homers by an American League team right now is 17 and it's 19 for a National League team. Miguel Gonzalez (1-1, 6.28 ERA) takes the mound tonight for the Orioles against right-hander R.A. Dickey (1-3, 6.36 ERA). Minor league leaders: The Orioles have one pitcher at each of their four full-season affiliates in the top 10 of their respective leagues in ERA. At Triple-A Norfolk, Mike Wright has an ERA of 1.59 to tie for ninth in the International League. The Tides' Brad Brach leads IL relievers with an 18.69 strikeouts per nine innings rate. Brach has fanned an amazing 18 batters in just 8 2/3 innings. At Double-A Bowie, lefty Tim Berry, who is pitching tonight, ranks third in the Eastern League with an ERA of 1.00. Teammate Tyler Wilson is tied for the league lead with three wins and is second with 27 strikeouts. At Single-A Frederick, Matt Taylor ranks seventh in the Carolina League with an ERA of 2.14. Teammate Glynn Davis is leading the league batting .415 and ranks first in hits and second in OBP. At Single-A Delmarva, right-hander Hunter Harvey, who is pitching tonight, is tied for first in the South Atlantic League with an ERA of 1.06. He ranks first in WHIP at 0.71 and in opponents' batting average at .151. Delmarva's Jimmy Yacabonis is tied for the league lead with four saves. By now, you have probably heard that Manny Machado will play at Frederick on Friday night. The last time Machado was with the Keys, he and Jonathan Schoop led Frederick to the 2011 Carolina League championship. Machado hit .344 in nine postseason games then for the Keys.