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Brian Matusz says he hopes to 'pick up the slack' Sunday. - Chris Davis homered and drove in four runs, leading the Orioles to an 11-3 rout of the New York Yankees.
- Chris Davis drove in three runs on a pair of opposite-field singles against the shift as the Orioles plated 11 straight runs in an 11-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in front of an announced crowd of 16,283 at Rogers Centre.
- The Blue Jays traded for R.A. Dickey ahead of the 2013 season for the knuckleballer to anchor their rebuilt rotation, but he hasn't found much success against his division rival from Baltimore.
- Right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez, whom the Orioles signed to a four-year, $50 million contract in February, couldn't get out of the sixth inning against a free-swinging Toronto Blue Jays lineup in an 11-3 rout Sunday afternoon at Camden Yards in front of an announced 39,281.
- One day after they were eliminated from the playoff picture, the Orioles fielded a starting lineup Wednesday night more fit for late-February than late-September.
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- Jonathan Schoop was hanging out at his locker Wednesday afternoon when Orioles manager Buck Showalter, who had been talking with shortstop J.J. Hardy nearby, pointed to Schoop and said, "You and J.J. today."
- Jonathan Schoop gets his first hit; Ryan Flaherty gets his first Eutaw Street homer.
