masn-baseballs-orioles.jpgThe Orioles are in Buffalo tonight to play the Blue Jays, start a three-city trip and attempt to end their road losing streak at 19 games.
Ryan Mountcastle is playing first base and Trey Mancini is the designated hitter.
Austin Hays is in left field and Anthony Santander is starting in right.
Cedric Mullins is hitting .441 (41-for-93) in the Orioles’ 23 wins, the highest average in the majors. He’s hitting .246 (46-for-187) in the 50 losses when he’s played.
Mullins is batting .403…

The Orioles are in Buffalo tonight to play the Blue Jays, start a three-city trip and attempt to end their road losing streak at 19 games.

Ryan Mountcastle is playing first base and Trey Mancini is the designated hitter.

Austin Hays is in left field and Anthony Santander is starting in right.

Cedric Mullins is hitting .441 (41-for-93) in the Orioles’ 23 wins, the highest average in the majors. He’s hitting .246 (46-for-187) in the 50 losses when he’s played.

Thumbnail image for Mullins-Catch-Gray-No-Hitter-Sidebar.jpgMullins is batting .403 (27-for-67) in the first inning and his 27 hits are the most by a player in any inning in the majors.

Mountcastle is a career .390/.405/.756 (16-for-41) hitter with five home runs against Toronto.

Mancini’s 29 RBIs against left-handers this season lead the majors.

Paul Fry and the Indians’ Emmanuel Clase are the only pitchers (minimum 20 innings) to allow only one extra-base hit this season.

Rookie Dean Kremer is 0-6 with a 6.20 ERA and 1.480 WHIP in 11 starts and has surrendered 13 home runs In 49 1/3 innings. He held the Blue Jays to two runs and three hits in six innings in his last start, which included home runs by Marcus Semien and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

The Orioles have been swept in nine series and are 1-13 in their last 14 games, the only win coming against the Blue Jays on Friday night.

The Blue Jays have won four in a row. They’re 13-16 at “home.”

Toronto left-hander Anthony Kay has posted a 6.43 ERA and 1.524 WHIP in six games (four starts) and is averaging 4.3 walks and 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings. He worked 3 1/3 relief innings against the Orioles on Saturday and surrendered home runs to Mountcastle and Mullins.

Mountcastle hit three home runs that day and Mullins two.

For the Orioles
Cedric Mullins CF
Trey Mancini DH
Ryan Mountcastle 1B
Anthony Santander RF
Austin Hays LF
Freddy Galvis SS
Maikel Franco 3B
Pedro Severino C
Pat Valaika 2B

Dean Kremer RHP