(Sports Network) - Veteran Toronto right-hander A.J. Burnett will try to prolong a career's worth of success against Baltimore tonight, when the Blue Jays visit the Orioles in the third of four games at Camden Yards.
Burnett is 6-1 in eight lifetime meetings with the Orioles and has faced them twice this season, including a 9-8 triumph on July 9 at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
In that win, the 31-year-old was touched for seven hits and seven runs in 5 1/3 innings, walking three and striking out seven. He dropped a 9-5 decision to Baltimore on June 7 in Toronto after allowing 10 hits and eight runs in 4 1/3 innings.
Burnett won four of his final six starts before the All-Star break, but is just 3-6 in 11 road starts in 2008.
Former first-round draft pick Jeremy Guthrie can extend his unbeaten string to seven starts for Baltimore.
The 22nd overall pick in 2002 by the Cleveland Indians, Guthrie's last loss came June 12 in Boston, when he was beaten, 9-2, after allowing seven hits and five runs in 4 2/3 innings.
He's 3-0 in six appearances since, including wins over the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers.
Guthrie faced Toronto on June 7 and earned a 9-5 triumph after limiting the Blue Jays to six hits and a run in seven innings. A no-decision followed on July 10, when he was touched for four hits and an earned run in seven innings.
Lifetime against them, he's 1-0 in five starts with a 2.65 earned run average in 34 innings.
On Tuesday, Adam Lind highlighted a 14-hit attack with four of his own, including a go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth, as Toronto wore down Baltimore, 10-8.
Lind finished 4-for-5 with two runs scored and John McDonald made the most of his 1-for-3 night with four runs batted in for the Blue Jays, who inched ahead of Baltimore into fourth place in the ultra-competitive American League East.
Jesse Carlson (2-1) was the benefactor of the offensive onslaught, pitching 1 1/3 scoreless frames. B.J. Ryan yielded one run but held on for his 19th save.
Melvin Mora hit a two-run home run, drove home five runs and finished 4-for-5, while Nick Markakis hit a two-run home run to greet Toronto starter Shaun Marcum, who gave up the bomb in his first inning after a stay on the disabled list.
Fernando Cabrera (0-1) was hit with the loss after giving up two runs in his one frame.
Toronto is 6-4 against the Orioles so far this season and split a two-game series with Baltimore at Camden Yards from April 14-15.
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