Guerrero Jr. leads Blue Jays past Orioles 7-6

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in four runs while extending his hit streak to 20 games to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Baltimore Orioles 7-6 on Thursday.

TORONTO – Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in four runs while extending his hit streak to 20 games to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Baltimore Orioles 7-6 on Thursday.

Guerrero Jr. finished a single shy of hitting for the cycle.

By winning the rubber match, the Blue Jays (53-62) claimed their seventh win in 10 starts at home. Baltimore (68-48) has dropped 15 of its last 26 contests.

Guerrero doubled home George Springer in the first inning, belted an opposite-field two-run shot for his 23rd homer in the fifth and tripled in another run off the right-field wall in the sixth.

Last week’s American League player-of-the-week is just two shy of reaching his career-best 22-game hit streak, set in 2022. He became only the second player in Blue Jays’ history to check in with two hit streaks of 20 or more games.

Damaso Garcia registered hit streaks of 20 and 21 games in 1982 and 1983, respectively.

Guerrero went three-for-four Thursday night with a fly ball out to right field in the second. He also scored two runs.

During his streak, he has hit 507. (37 for 73) with 11 doubles, a triple, 10 homers and 22 RBI.