Trey Gibson, Christian Encarnacion-Strand Power Orioles Past Blue Jays 4-2

NSMT NewsroomSource date · 2026-09-24

The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 in the second game of a doubleheader at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Wednesday.

Baltimore did its scoring early, plating three runs in the first inning and adding a fourth in the fourth on Christian Encarnacion-Strand's solo home run off Blue Jays starter CJ Van Eyk. Encarnacion-Strand finished 2-for-3 with the homer, three RBIs and two runs scored. Colton Cowser and Coby Mayo each added doubles for Baltimore, and Cowser drove in a run.

Trey Gibson worked 6.2 innings for the win, allowing three hits and two walks while striking out seven without giving up a run. He threw 92 pitches, 65 for strikes. Gibson improved to 2-3 on the season.

Van Eyk took the loss for Toronto, allowing four earned runs on four hits over five innings with two strikeouts and no walks. Relievers Brendan Cellucci and Chase Lee combined to hold Baltimore scoreless over the final 3.0 innings, with Lee striking out three in 1.2 innings.

Toronto's offense stayed quiet for most of the game before Davis Schneider hit a two-run home run off Felix Bautista with one out in the ninth inning, the only runs the Blue Jays would score. Bautista allowed two hits and two runs in his lone inning of work but recorded the final two outs to close out the win for Baltimore. Nathan Lukes went 2-for-4 for Toronto, and Kazuma Okamoto grounded into a double play among his 0-for-4 night.

Pete Alonso went 0-for-3 with a run scored and a strikeout for Baltimore, while Gunnar Henderson drew a walk and struck out once in a 0-for-2 showing. The Orioles committed one error, a defensive-shift violation by Jeremiah Jackson, while Toronto played error-free defense and turned a double play of its own.

The win improved Baltimore to 78-81 overall, while Toronto fell to 77-82. The game was played in front of an announced crowd of 19,824 and lasted 2 hours, 22 minutes.

Correction, September 24: An earlier version mislabeled Gibson’s groundouts and air outs as batted-ball totals and described Jackson’s error as occurring on a ground ball. The batted-ball sentence has been removed; Jackson’s error was a defensive-shift violation.