Overbay and McDonald homer, Purcey gets first win of season as Blue Jays beat Orioles 9-2

Overbay, McDonald lead Blue Jays over Orioles 9-2

TORONTO — Lyle Overbay and John McDonald homered, David Purcey won for the first time in more than a year and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 9-2 on Monday night, handing the Orioles their fifth straight loss.

Toronto has won 11 of 13 home games against Baltimore and 25 of 35 dating to 2006.

Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion and Travis Snider each hit a two-run single for the Blue Jays, who batted around in the third and eighth.

Attendance was 11,598, the third straight game Toronto has drawn fewer than 12,000 fans. Toronto’s all-time low is 10,074, set April 17, 1979, against the Chicago White Sox.

Purcey (1-2) had not won since pitching eight shutout innings on Sept. 7, 2008, against Tampa Bay. The left-hander allowed one run and four hits in a season-high 7 2-3 innings. He walked four and struck out four.

Baltimore loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth but Shawn Camp came on and got Melvin Mora to ground into a fielder’s choice.

Right-hander Jason Frasor gave up a sacrifice fly to Felix Pie in the ninth.

Orioles rookie Chris Tillman (2-4) allowed four runs and six hits in five-plus innings. He walked three and struck out five.

Pie’s RBI single gave Baltimore a 1-0 lead in the second but Toronto took the lead with a three-run third. Lind singled home two runs and, after Vernon Wells grounded out, Tillman walked three straight batters, including a bases-loaded pass to Snider.

Overbay chased Tillman with a leadoff homer to right in the sixth, his 15th.

Left-hander Alberto Castillo got two outs before Orioles manager Dave Trembley brought in right-hander Cla Meredith to face McDonald, who homered to left, his third. The drive snapped an 0-for-13 slump.

Encarnacion and Snider each hit a two-run single in a four-run eighth, with all the runs charged to right-hander Bob McCrory.

Nick Markakis entered in a 5-for-40 slump but hit a leadoff single in the second and scored Baltimore’s first run. Trembley said Markakis could get his first day off this season Tuesday. Markakis has started 149 of Baltimore’s 150 games. He came off the bench in a June 21 victory at Philadelphia.

NOTES: Blue Jays SS Marco Scutaro has a tear in his right heel and is likely done for the season, manager Cito Gaston said. … Toronto LHP Brian Tallet, who left his last start after he was hit on the right foot by a line drive, is expected to start Tuesday against Baltimore, Gaston said. … The roof was closed when the game began, opened in the early innings, then closed again in the eighth. … Baltimore is 6-24 in road games against AL East opponents.