Toronto Blue Jays Travis Shaw, left, celebrates his two-run homerun with teammate Randal Grichuk in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles on Friday September 25 February 2020 in Buffalo, NO (Jeffrey T Barnes / AP)
BUFFALO, NO – Randal Grichuk and Travis Shaw made a homer, Nate Pearson came back from an elbow injury to pitch 1 1/3 scoreless innings, and the Toronto Blue Jays in the playoffs beat the Orioles from Baltimore 10-5 Friday night
Shaw narrowly missed a multihomer game, hitting a brace in the seventh that hit the top of the wall in right field and bounced back into play
Pearson had been sidelined since an August 18 game in Baltimore He came on to start the fourth and struck out the first hitter he faced, Austin Hays, on three pitches
The rookie hard-throw right-hander hit 1015 mph on his strike three steps from Hays It was the fastest launch of a Blue Jays pitcher since the follow-up started in 2008, eclipsing a 101Pas of 2 mph by Brandon Morrow in 2014
A starter earlier this season, Pearson to come out of the playoff reliever box The Blue Jays have been without Ken Giles closer for much of the season with an elbow injury that will require a surgical intervention
Toronto clinched its first post-season spot since 2016 by beating the Yankees 4-1 on Thursday The Blue Jays are sure to have at least one wild card and could still edge New York for second in the AL East
Grichuk hit a Jorge Lopez tee shot in the second, his 11th, and Toronto scored six runs in the inning, sending 10 batters home
Toronto chased Lopez out and added two more in the third before Shaw connected on a two-runner shot against Tom Eshelman in the fourth
Lopez (2-2) allowed eight runs and nine hits in over two innings, losing for the second straight start He went 0-2 with an 1120 ERA in five games against Toronto
Baltimore’s Ramon Urias and Cedric Mullins hit back-to-back solo home homers against Shun Yamaguchi in fifth, and Jose Iglesias joined the Japanese right-hander in sixth
Blue Jays: General manager Ross Atkins says INF Rowdy Tellez (knee) probably wouldn’t be healthy in time for the first round of the playoffs… RHP Jordan Romano (tight right middle finger) threw a second bullpen session on Friday and remains in the mix for a place in the post-season roster… INF Cavan Biggio has obtained the day off, his first of the season
Orioles: Renato Nunez (knee) sat for second game in a row but was available on the bench and is expected to play again before the end of the season, manager Brandon Hyde has said
Baltimore LHP John Means (2-3, 502) takes on Blue Jays RHP Matt Shoemaker (0-1, 471) on Saturday night The average is 2-1 with a 274 ERA in September Fourth Starts Shoemaker returned from injury on the shoulder to pitch three innings against the Yankees on September 21
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