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BALTIMORE — Charles McAdoo homered for his first career hit, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. belted a two-run go-ahead double in the eighth inning and the Blue Jays returned to the .500 mark after rallying from five runs down in a 6-5 victory over the Orioles on Friday night at Camden Yards.
Kazuma Okamoto also clubbed a two-run drive — his 12th — two batters before McAdoo’s two-run opposite-field shot chased Orioles left-hander Trevor Rogers in the seventh inning.
Guerrero’s drive toward the left-field corner off Yennier Cano completed the comeback for the Blue Jays, who won their fourth straight and 10th out of 14 to return to the even-water mark (29-29) for the first time since they were 4-4 on April 4.
In the first of two potential bullpen games in three days, Mason Fluharty (3-0) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings to get to the ninth, and Braydon Fisher worked the final inning for his first career save.
A day after his selection from Triple-A Buffalo, McAdoo connected in his third at-bat against Rogers, driving a 1-1 fastball a Statcast-projected 369 feet over the short wall in right-center, just to the left of the out-of-town scoreboard at Camden Yards.
Playing second base for only the 13th time as a pro — and fourth since 2023 — McAdoo also turned a crisp 4-3 double play in the first inning.
Guerrero put together his third two-hit game of the week at just the right time. His seventh-inning single was the first of four hits that plated four runs. In the eighth, he pulled Cano’s first-pitch fastball on the lower inside corner into a wide-open patch of grass as the Orioles played him to go to the opposite field.
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