Chris Tillman gets knocked out early as Jays win big in series finale

TORONTO - Chris Tillman against the Toronto Blue Jays has just not been a good matchup for the right-hander or the Orioles this year, and that trend continued this afternoon. Tillman got blasted for three homers and allowed six runs in three innings plus one batter as the Blue Jays beat the Orioles 10-4 to take two of three in the series.

The Orioles lost the last two games of the series against the American League East leaders after Friday's 10-2 win. They head to New York with a record of 65-71 and 14 losses in the past 17 games.

Tillman gave up eight hits as he falls to 9-11 with an ERA of 5.15 for the year. Over his past four starts, he is 0-4 with an ERA of 8.85. This followed a 12-start stretch during which Tillman went 7-0.

Tillman's numbers against Toronto:
* He is 0-4 with an ERA of 15.50 in five starts this year.
* He is 0-2 with an ERA of 19.73 in three Rogers Centre starts this season.
* He is 4-10 with an ERA of 6.02 in 19 career starts against the Jays.

In 18 innings against Toronto this season, Tillman has allowed 35 hits, 31 runs and nine homers. He has given up nine homers in his other 21 starts combined.

Today, he and the Orioles trailed 3-0 just three batters into the last of the first. Ben Revere singled, scored on Josh Donaldson's double and then Jose Bautista's two-run shot made it 3-0. Troy Tulowitzki hit a two-run homer in the third. When No. 9 hitter Kevin Pillar homered leading off the last of the fourth, that ended Tillman's day and Steve Johnson came on.

Today was the eighth straight game an O's starter went fewer than six innings. The rotation ERA is 7.52 over the last 13 games.

The O's got on the board versus winning pitcher Marco Estrada in the fifth. Nolan Reimold produced an infield single with one out and then Ryan Flaherty hit a second-deck homer to right field. It was No. 7 for Flaherty. In the sixth, the O's pulled within 6-3 on a Jimmy Paredes RBI double off LaTroy Hawkins. The O's had the tying run at the plate with two on and two out that inning, but Hawkins got Reimold to ground out. Toronto added three runs in the sixth against Chaz Roe and one in the ninth off Oliver Drake. Reimold hit a solo homer in the ninth to drive in the fourth O's run.

While Toronto (78-58) improved to 33-12 since the All-Star break, the Orioles fall to 6-9 versus the Jays, 28-28 against the AL East and 27-44 on the road.

The Orioles play the Yankees in New York to start a three-game series Monday at 1:05 p.m., when Wei-Yin Chen (8-7, 3.36 ERA) faces right-hander Michael Pineda (10-8, 4.07 ERA).