An early home run from Ryan Mountcastle and a go-ahead single from the standout rookie in the middle innings weren’t nearly enough to weather another letdown for the Orioles bullpen Monday night in a 7-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.
Mountcastle’s team-high 25th home run was a fine start to this northern road trip for the Orioles, and the lead stood until Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered off Chris Ellis in the fourth. But Ellis pitched into the fifth in another impressive turn in the Orioles’ rotation for the recent waiver claim, and a sixth-inning single from Mountcastle briefly broke that tie.