masn-baseballs-orioles.jpgCaleb Joseph homered again to tie an Orioles club record and Miguel Gonzalez pitched a solid six innings to get the win tonight as the Orioles edged Toronto 2-1 at Rogers Centre.

The Orioles took two of three in the series between the two top teams in the American League East. They leave town leading Toronto by five games.

The Orioles also kept intact their record of not losing an AL East road series. They have won seven and tied one in 2014, going 17-8.

This was the Orioles’ ninth…Caleb Joseph homered again to tie an Orioles club record and Miguel Gonzalez pitched a solid six innings to get the win tonight as the Orioles edged Toronto 2-1 at Rogers Centre.

The Orioles took two of three in the series between the two top teams in the American League East. They leave town leading Toronto by five games.

The Orioles also kept intact their record of not losing an AL East road series. They have won seven and tied one in 2014, going 17-8.

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This was the Orioles’ ninth one-run game in their last 13 contests and they are 7-2 in those nine games.

The Orioles have won a season-high six consecutive series and they are 39-22 since May 31.

After the Orioles went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position the first three innings, J.J. Hardy led off the fourth with a double and one out later scored on Joseph’s seventh homer, a two-run shot on a 2-0 pitch from J.A Happ. It gave the O’s a 2-0 lead.

Joseph has homered in his last four games to tie the Orioles record for catchers shared by Ramon Hernandez (June 22-28, 2006) and Gus Triandos (June 13-19, 1959).

Joseph and Jay Gibbons are the only Orioles rookies to homer in four straight games. Gibbons did it from June 17-20, 2001. The last Oriole to homer in his last four games was Chris Davis from July 11-14, 2013.

Gonzalez battled his way through six innings and Toronto stranded five runners against him. He gave up four hits and one run with two walks and four strikeouts. Gonzalez improves to 6-6 with an ERA of 3.80.

Gonzalez has an ERA of 2.43 over his last six starts and has allowed two earned runs or less in eight of his last 12 starts.

The Orioles’ bullpen came up big again. Andrew Miller pitched a scoreless seventh with two strikeouts. Darren O’Day blanked Toronto in the eighth and Zach Britton pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to record his 24th save in 27 chances.

Happ struck out 12 with just one walk over eight innings and 125 pitches. But one pitch that went over the wall beat him tonight.

The Orioles come home Friday night to begin a weekend series against St. Louis with Chris Tillman (8-5, 3.78 ERA) facing Justin Masterson (5-6, 5.63 ERA).