O's overcome delay and Blue Jays, top Toronto 6-4

A rain delay of 3 hours, 25 minutes could not stop the Orioles today. Manny Machado hit homers before and after the delay and went 3-for-4 with two stolen bases as the Orioles beat Toronto 6-4. When Zach Britton got the game's last out for his 35th save, it was nearly seven hours after it started.

The game began at 12:10 p.m., but went into a long delay after a first inning where the Orioles took a 3-0 lead.

The Orioles won the last two games to split this four-game series and improve to 78-81 with three games left in the 2015 season.

In the last of the fourth, Machado singled and then stole second and third base, his 20th steal of the season. With that, it was just the seventh time in club history that a player had 20 steals and 20 homers in a season, and the second time a player had 20 SBs/30 HRs.

Machado joins Paul Blair, Don Baylor, Reggie Jackson and Brady Anderson (three times) as Orioles with 20/20 seasons. He joins Anderson with 50/21 in 1996 as the second Oriole to reach 30/20.

O's second baseman Jonathan Schoop left the game when it resumed in the second inning. He suffered a right hand contusion when hit by a pitch in the first. Paul Janish replaced him.

Before the delay, the O's took the lead in opening frame off right-hander Drew Hutchison. Gerardo Parra singled with one out and scored on Machado's 32nd homer for a 2-0 lead. Later, Steve Pearce's RBI double scored Chris Davis, who had doubled, and it was 3-0. When play resumed, the Orioles made it 4-0 in the second against Jeff Francis. Davis walked with two outs, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on Janish's single.

Nolan Reimold added an RBI single in the fifth and Machado drilled his 33rd homer, a solo blast, in the sixth for his fourth multi-homer game of the season and the sixth of his career. Down 6-1 in the seventh, Toronto scored three to close the gap. Ezequiel Carrera's two-run double off Brian Matusz made it 6-4.

Tyler Wilson walked two, but pitched a scoreless first inning. He was replaced by T.J. McFarland after the delay. McFarland got the win, going four innings and allowing five hits and one run.

Now the Orioles get set for the final series of the year, weather-permitting. On Friday night, they host the Yankees with Wei-Yin Chen (10-8, 3.35 ERA) facing Adam Warren (7-7, 3.37 ERA).