O's beat Jays 4-3 in 10 on a walk-off passed ball

It was a walk-off win on a passed ball. Blue Jays catcher Josh Thole let a 1-1 pitch to Adam Jones with the bases loaded get away from him and the Orioles posted a 4-3 walk-off win in 10 innings. Caleb Joseph scored the winning run that gives the Orioles a 9-4 record. It was the Orioles' second walk-off win. The other was opening day.

Toronto's Rule 5 pick, right-hander Joe Biagini, came on to pitch in the 10th. With two outs, Joseph doubled to right-center. Then the O's Rule 5 pick, Joey Rickard, reached on an infield hit to put runners at the corners. He advanced to second but was not awarded a stolen base. Manny Machado walked on a 3-1 pitch to load the bases. Moments later, the ball got away from Thole and the game ended.

Earlier, Ubaldo Jimenez had some good stuff at times tonight, but commanding and controlling it was a real challenge. Over five innings, he allowed five hits and two runs with four walks and six strikeouts. He threw 110 pitches, 65 for strikes and has an ERA of 3.71 through three starts.

The Blue Jays' leadoff runner got on base in every inning Jimenez pitched, but he held Toronto to 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position.

In the first inning, with runners on second and third and one out, Jimenez caught Edwin Encarnacion's liner back to the mound and doubled a runner off third to end that inning. In the second, he pitched out of a two-on jam with no outs. Michael Saunders led off the third with a walk and came around to score on Encarnacion's single off Machado's glove. Josh Donaldson led off the fifth with his sixth homer of the year to pull the Blue Jays within 3-2 after the Orioles had scored three runs in the first inning.

This was the ninth time this year an O's starter pitched less than six innings. But Jimenez left with a 3-2 lead after O's starters had worked to an ERA of 6.70 the previous eight games.

The O's held the lead in the sixth when left fielder Rickard threw Ryan Goins out at the plate. Goins was at first and running on a 3-2 pitch. Rickard dove for the ball that glanced off his glove. He got up and then threw a strike to the plate to get the outfield assist and keep his team in the lead.

The Orioles quickly scored three runs tonight against knuckleballer R.A. Dickey. Their first four batters reached in the bottom of the first. Rickard led off with an infield hit to third base. He scored when Machado smoked an RBI double to left-center for his seventh RBI of 2016. After Jones walked, Chris Davis crushed what would only be a single off the right-field wall for a 2-0 lead. With runners on the corners, Mark Trumbo hit into a 5-4-3 double play that scored Jones for the 3-0 lead.

But down 3-2, Toronto tied it up off Brad Brach in the seventh. Saunders led off with a double and scored on Encarnacion's two-out double to left for his second RBI of the game and a 3-3 tie. Brach had thrown 7 1/3 scoreless innings over his first seven appearances.

In the season's first 12 games, the Orioles had scored a total of two runs in the first inning. Tonight they got three.

In the series finale here tomorrow night, Chris Tillman (1-1, 5.11 ERA) faces right-hander Marco Estrada (1-1, 2.77 ERA).