Chris Davis doesn’t mind being the guy counted on by the Orioles. On Thursday night, it was Davis’ bat that helped the O’s erase a deficit and defeat the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5.

Even his ground balls feel like dingers.

Fueled by a seven-run seventh inning, the Marlins routed the Twins, 10-3, on Thursday night in the series finale at Target Field. The Marlins broke a 2-2 tie with the big inning, which was was capped by a two-run homer by pinch-hitter Chris Johnson, and avoided a sweep by Minnesota.

Nightmare fuel.

The Orioles’ offense came alive late, scoring a run in the sixth, seventh and ninth innings to come from behind and edge the Blue Jays, 6-5, at Rogers Centre on Thursday night.

Thanks in large part to a fifth-inning offensive outburst, the Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the Angels, returning to .500 on the season with a 6-3 win on Thursday.

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Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista exited Toronto’s series opener against the Orioles in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Austin Meadows didn’t waste any time extending his hitting streak to 18 games. The No. 16 overall prospect hammered the fourth pitch he saw out to right field for a two-run homer that gave Altoona an early two run lead.

DJ LeMahieu reached base four times and drove in three runs, and the Rockies tagged the Pirates hard and early in an 11-5 victory.

After a two-hit, two-run first inning for the Reds’ offense that was jumpstarted by a four-pitch walk to Joey Votto, it looked like it was going to be another one of those nights for Cardinals veteran Adam Wainwright.

Yes, there were emotions.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred hosted his Nippon Professional Baseball counterpart Katsuhiko Kumazaki for a wide-ranging discussion of such mutual interests as baseball’s possible return to the 2020 Summer Olympics and pace of play, and then the latter watched with interest as the former read the first-round selections at MLB Network.

The first two rounds of the MLB Draft came and went Thursday evening without a single Cubs selection, the byproduct of two offseason free-agent signings.

Catcher Yan Gomes, who came out of Tuesday’s game after being hit in the groin with a foul tip, is improving but was held out of the starting lineup again Thursday night for the finale of the four-game series against the Mariners at Safeco Field.

What are friends for?

The Rangers scored three runs in the third, and Prince Fielder added a home run an inning later, to back starter Martin Perez during a 5-3 win against the Astros on Thursday afternoon at Globe Life Park in the finale of the four-game series.