TORONTO — The Orioles hit four home runs, including three off starterAaron Sanchez, earning their fourth win over the Toronto Blue Jays in as many meetings with a 6-4 victory Friday night at Rogers Centre.

In taking advantage of a spiraling Blue Jays team off to its worst start in club history (1-9), the Orioles earned their third straight win overall and stayed in first place in the American League East.

Jonathan Schoop, J.J. Hardy, Chris Davis and Seth Smith homered for the Orioles (7-2). Left-hander Wade Miley (1-0) won his first decision of the year.

Friday night’s power display gave the Orioles nine homers in their past three games.

Hardy’s two-run blast in a three-run fifth was his first of the season and gave the Orioles the lead for good after they trailed 3-1. Schoop hit his second homer in his past three games earlier in the inning, and Davis smoked his third homer of the season in the sixth.

Smith added insurance with a solo homer in the ninth off right-hander Jason Grilli for his second home run of the season.

Britton continues to climb save streak list: Despite allowing a run in the ninth, closer Zach Britton converted his 54th straight save opportunity, which tied him with Tom Gordon for the second-longest consecutive-saves streak in baseball history. Only Eric Gagne (84) had more.

After Britton stranded the potential winning run at second base in the ninth Thursday night, the winning run came to the plate with two outs in the ninth Friday. And just as he did Thursday, Britton retired former Oriole Steve Pearce to end the game, this time striking him out by getting Pearce to swing through an inside fastball.

“You’ve got the winning run at the plate and Zach went [inside],” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “Last place he may have been looking. Stevie is really capable of hurting you there. We got lucky last night and tonight Zach got a pitch where he wanted to get it.”

Before that, Britton allowed a run on Devon Travis’ two-out RBI single, the first time a run had been scored against the closer since Aug. 24, ending a string of 18 scoreless outings.

Miley earns first win: Making his second start of the season, Miley had his first quality start of the season, holding the Blue Jays to three runs on five hits over six innings.

Coming off a season debut in which he walked seven batters in five innings, Miley struck out eight batters without issuing a walk.

O’Day gets out of jam: Right-hander Darren O’Day pitched his second straight scoreless outing, but it didn’t come without drama.

With the Orioles up 5-3, O’Day pitched a scoreless seventh inning but allowed singles to Ryan Goins and Kevin Pillar, bringing the go-ahead run to the plate in the form of Pearce, who popped out.

Right-hander Brad Brach followed by striking out the side in the eighth.

Umpire injured: Home plate umpire and crew chief Dale Scott was carted off the field in the top of the eighth inning when a foul ball off the bat of Mark Trumbo hit him in the bottom part of his mask.

Scott, a 31-year veteran, fell and was attended to by trainers and EMS personnel. He was mobilized with a neck brace, placed on a stretcher and carted off the field. He was replaced at home plate by Brian Knight.

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