On Tuesday night, they didn't solve soft-tossing Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Aaron Laffey. He threw 52 / 3 scoreless innings as Toronto won, 4-0, in front of an announced 30,205 at Camden Yards. [Our players] understand where they're at and most importantly, they understand how they got here. And they'll continue with that," Orioles Manager Buck Showalter said. One thing I noticed in the past, you're always going to get everyone's best shot, and when we had been struggling and we'd go into certain venues where there's a good emotion in the ballpark, it feeds the other team as well as us. Sometimes, it can work both ways. Laffey, a Cumberland, Md., native, induced 11 groundball outs and allowed just one runner to reach second base. For the game, the Orioles stranded nine base runners and were 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position That forced the Orioles, who have lost two straight, to await the Yankees" late game in Minnesota to see if they would fall more than two games out of first place in the American League East for the first time since Sept. They remained 11 / 2 games behind the Yankees, who lost to Minnesota, 5-4, despite taking an early 3-1 lead. Left-hander Joe Saunders kept the Orioles in the game despite giving up hits to five of the first eight batters. He recorded his fourth quality start in six since the Orioles acquired him in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Aug. 26. It's a battle. I didn't feel I had my best stuff, but I feel like I kept my team in the game as best I could," Saunders said. I think we've played like 100 innings the last five days, so bullpen's pretty burnt up, so I had to go as deep as I could. Five hitters into the game, the Orioles trailed 1-0 after Yan Gomes" two-out single scored Brett Lawrie from second. But the Orioles got out of the inning when Rajai Davis's grounder hit Gomes running to second. Adeiny Hechavarria's two-out double scored another run in the fourth, and the Jays scored two more runs charged to Saunders in the seventh. Two batters later, Colby Rasmus's one-out single scored Arencibia and chased Saunders from the game. The Orioles had runners at first and second with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning after Davis's double down the right-field line and a walk to Machado. Flaherty flew out to center field on the first pitch. "Right now, winning is the only thing that's going to help us," said Orioles catcher Matt Wieters. We know we're going to need to win some games to be able to get in, so we're just going to keep trying to win as many as we can. Dylan Bundy made his second appearance for the Orioles and the first at home. He worked a scoreless ninth despite allowing a hit and a walk. L.J. Hoes made his major league debut as a pinch-runner in the bottom of the ninth.