Baltimore Orioles at Toronto Blue Jays 6/16/22 - MLB Picks & Predictions

AL East Division foes will clash on Thursday afternoon, when the Baltimore Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays wrap up their series from Rogers Centre. The Orioles (27-37) have dropped 22 of their first 34 road games and are stuck in last place. Last night, Baltimore 1B Ryan Mountcastle homered twice and drove in three runs during a 7-6 loss in ten innings.

Twenty-seven year old righty Tyler Wells (3-4 3.86 ERA) will take the mound for the Orioles in this matchup. Baltimore has won Wells’s last three starts and he has allowed five runs over his last 16 frames.

The Toronto Blue Jays are nine games above .500 at home and trail first place New York by nine games. On Wednesday, 1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered as part of a four-hit night and scored three times to power the Toronto offense. Guerrero Jr. delivered the walk-off single to score Bo Bichette with the winning run for the Blue Jays (37-25).

The Blue Jays will counter with hard-throwing righty Kevin Gausman (5-5 2.67 ERA) on Thursday. Through 70 plus innings, Gausman has struck out 77 batters and owns a solid 1.19 WHIP.