Kyle Bradish’s second look at the Blue Jays in less than a week brought a much different result.

After holding them to one unearned run over seven innings at Camden Yards, Bradish allowed five runs and nine hits in four innings this afternoon in the Orioles’ 6-4 loss at Rogers Centre.

Bradish walked three batters and struck out three. His ERA rose from 3.44 to 3.89.

The killer inning was the third, after Bradish retired the first two batters. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walked, Jesús Sánchez grounded a single into center field on a ball that Jackson Holliday deflected, and Ernie Clement homered to give Toronto a 4-1 lead.

Three consecutive singles plated another run, as six batters in a row reached base. Colton Cowser threw out Kazuma Okamoto at third.

Keegan Akin allowed a run in the fifth before the Orioles used the long ball to chip away at the deficit. They scored twice in the sixth and once in the seventh, but the loss lowered their record to 31-34 and pushed them back into a third-place tie.

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The Orioles were down 6-1 with a runner on first base and one out in the sixth when Blue Jays manager John Schneider brought in Jeff Hoffman. It wasn’t a popular choice with fans, who greeted Hoffman with a smattering of boos.

What happened next didn’t change their opinion.

Pete Alonso greeted Hoffman with a 421-foot, two-run homer to right field with an exit velocity of 107.7 mph.

Alonso and Gunnar Henderson are tied for the team lead with 13. Eight of Alonso’s homers have gone to the opposite field.

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Schneider called upon left-hander Mason Fluharty in the seventh with Cowser, Blaze Alexander and Holliday due up.

Fluharty was making his 34th appearance, which tied teammate Braydon Fisher for the major league lead. Fisher was today’s opener.

Left-handers were hitting .149/.241/.170 against Fluharty, but right-handers were hitting .364/.429/.477. Tyler O’Neill pinch-hit for Cowser and struck out, but Alexander belted his second home run of the season to reduce the lead to 6-4.

Jeremiah Jackson pinch-hit for Holliday and struck out, and Taylor Ward also fanned. Fluharty registered three strikeouts against right-handers in the inning, but Alexander took him deep.

Henderson led off the eighth with an infield single, and Fluharty came out of the game. Clement made a diving stop and throw to rob Alonso and prevent Henderson from scoring.

Cowser scare

Cowser slammed his right arm into the right field fence while trying to make a leaping catch of Clement’s fly ball in the fifth inning. Clement wound up on third base with a triple and Cowser got a visit from assistant athletic trainer Ben Fraser.

Cowser tossed his glove to the ground and was wincing and rotating his arm, but he stayed in the game and ran down Ben Valenzuela’s fly ball in right-center field on the next pitch from Bradish. Cowser jumped to make the catch, and Clement tagged and scored for a 6-1 lead.

An injury really would have been lousy timing. Cowser homered off Spencer Miles in the second inning for a brief 1-0 lead, with the ball traveling 427 feet at 105 mph.

Cowser has four home runs in his last 14 games. He also has 12 RBIs in 14 games since May 24.

Bassitt update

Chris Bassitt returned to the Orioles after flying to Baltimore and having his back examined by team physicians. Bassitt came out of Wednesday’s start after only three innings due to tightness.

Bassitt’s next turn is Monday night against the Mariners at Camden Yards. Manager Craig Albernaz told the assembled media this afternoon that Bassitt is reviewing his options.

Hearing that word sounds ominous, except that Bassitt threw earlier today, which he wouldn’t be doing if he was dealing with something serious.

Trey Gibson would be the logical replacement if Bassitt can’t pitch Monday, since he’d be working on normal rest. The other possibility would be the dreaded bullpen game.

Basallo update

Samuel Basallo wasn’t in today’s lineup, but he also wasn’t on the injured list. And he pinch-hit for O’Neill in the ninth inning.

That’s a win, no matter the final score.

Jackson pinch-hit for Basallo last night in the sixth inning because the young catcher was experiencing some discomfort in his right abdomen. An MRI came back clean, according to Albernaz.

It sounded like Basallo was day-to-day, like the rest of us, but his availability today – he grounded out – is an indicator that he should remain on the active roster.

Sam Huff had his contract selected to give the team an extra catcher.

Jackson, by the way, became the first Orioles reserve with two-plus hits and two or more RBIs since Ramón Urías (three hits, two RBIs) on June 27, 2025 against the Rays.