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Friday, May 28 | 7:07 PM ET
BAL Kevin Millwood, RHP (0-4, 3.71) @ TOR Shaun Marcum, RHP (4-1, 2.82)

Orioles: Despite being among the American League leaders in innings and providing the best arm in Baltimore's rotation, Millwood is still looking for his first win of the season. He picked up a hard-luck no-decision in his last appearance Sunday against Washington, when he held the Nationals to three runs over 6 1/3 innings. He allowed eight hits, walked one batter and struck out eight in his 10th start of the season. In 10 career starts against the Blue Jays, Millwood is 2-5 with a 4.80 ERA. Of those 10 games, six occurred in Toronto, where he is 1-3 with a 4.78 ERA. He pitched 7 2/3 innings against the Blue Jays in Baltimore's third game of the season and gave up five runs (one earned) while striking out six.

Blue Jays: Marcum was unconventionally effective in his last start against Arizona, allowing three runs over five innings, while striking out a season's high eight batters. Marcum, normally a pitch-to-contact hurler, worked a high pitch count early in the ballgame (103), resulting in his shortest outing of the campaign. Nevertheless, the right-hander pitched well enough to earn his fourth victory of the season and in the process increased his homerless streak to three games. More good news for Marcum, he has walked two or fewer batters in his last four starts, which has contributed to three wins and one no-decision over that span. Marcum has also been backed by some better offense as of late as the Jays piled on 23 runs in his past two games against Minnesota and Arizona. Against the Orioles, Marcum is 1-2 lifetime with a 5.68 ERA over 50 2/3 frames.

Saturday, May 29 | 1:07 PM ET
BAL Chris Tillman, RHP (0-0, -.--) @ TOR Brett Cecil, LHP (4-2, 4.10)

Blue Jays: Despite forgetting to bring his signature blue sport goggles on the Blue Jays' past nine-game road trip, one could hardly see the difference as Cecil continued his hot start by throwing 7 1/3 shutout innings, giving up only two hits, against the Angels. With the exception of one bad start against Texas on May 14, when Cecil allowed eight runs over only two frames, the young left-hander has surrendered four or fewer runs in his remaining six outings. Cecil has also limited his free passes to three and under in all seven of his starts, and has only allowed four home runs in 41 2/3 innings, a sign of outstanding control. Cecil is 1-0 lifetime against the Orioles with a 1.74 ERA in two starts.

Sunday, May 30 | 1:07 PM ET
BAL Jeremy Guthrie, RHP (3-4, 3.64) @ TOR To be announced

Orioles: In his last outing Tuesday against Oakland, Guthrie turned in his eighth quality start in 10 appearances this season. He held the A's to one earned run through six innings, giving up six hits and three walks while striking out two. All three of his wins this season have come over his last four starts. Guthrie is 2-4 with a 3.56 ERA in 11 career starts against the Blue Jays, five of which came at the Rogers Centre. He is 1-2 with a 3.16 ERA at the Toronto stadium.

RapsFanInVA wrote:Well this will be the last series we win for quite some time.

Right after this series ends hop on board, we're goin' to .500!

Alfred wrote:

RapsFanInVA wrote:Well this will be the last series we win for quite some time.

Right after this series ends hop on board, we're goin' to .500!

Which is actually probably a good thing, considering there's talk that we might be BUYERS at the trade deadline, when we really should be unloading guys like Bautista when their value is at an all-time ridiculous high.

spykelee wrote:tuned in just in time to see Bautista's inside the park home run... that was awesome,

Schadenfreude wrote:Heh, when Wells moved the count to 3-2, I was convinced that he was going to hit it out. And so he did.

Facing Kevin Millwood: turning casual baseball fans into psychics since 2000.

spykelee wrote:Yea I know how it was officially scored, but if you reach home on the same play in which you left home, it's an inside the park homerun, i don't care what the scoring says.

LLJ wrote:A lot of pundits thought we'd be worse than the Orioles this year.