Adley Rutschman could hear his teammates yelling from the first-base dugout at Rogers Centre as he began to round the bases in the ninth inning on Friday night. His 104.6 mph liner landed perfectly in right-center field and slowed it as approached the wall. With Rutschman a triple shy of the cycle, the Orioles wanted to see him go for three. “I didn’t have a chance to go three,” Rutschman said with a wide grin. “But I thought it was pretty funny, because they were all hounding me.” “I understand. You don’t want to make an easy out in this game,” third baseman Coby Mayo noted. “But hey, it’s a cycle.” This is the type of fun the O’s can have at the moment, because they’re playing great baseball -- and, most importantly, better baseball than they were early in the season. Baltimore set a new season high for runs with a 13-3 series-opening victory over Toronto, using a five-run sixth inning to get its offense going. The O’s (31-33) recorded their 10th win in 14 games, and they now sit only two games below .500 for the first time since they were 15-17 after play on May 1.
