TORONTO(AP) -- David Purcey was handed a spot in Toronto's
rotation this spring but lasted just five starts before being
demoted to the minor leagues. On Monday night, he made his pitch
for a longer look in 2010.

Lyle Overbay and John McDonald homered, Purcey won for the first
time in more than a year and the Blue Jays beat Baltimore 9-2,
handing the Orioles their fifth straight loss.

Toronto has won 11 of 13 home games against Baltimore and 25 of
35 dating to 2006.

"His breaking pitches were nasty, his fastball was sneaky,"
Orioles third baseman Melvin Mora said of Purcey. "He was good,
he was really good."

Purcey (1-2) had not won since pitching eight shutout innings on
Sept. 7, 2008, against Tampa Bay. The left-hander allowed one
run and four hits in a season-high 7 2-3 innings Monday. He
walked four and struck out four.

It was Purcey's second start since being recalled from Triple-A
Las Vegas on Sept. 8. He allowed two runs in 5 2-3 innings at
Detroit last Monday.

"The last two outings he's been good," Toronto manager Cito
Gaston said. "He struggled to start off, balls and strikes, as
he normally would, but he came back and pitched a great game for
us there."

Toronto's first-round draft pick in 2004, Purcey is battling
fellow young lefties Brett Cecil and Mark Rzepczynski for a
starting spot in 2010. Despite the competition, he's trying not
to approach each outing as an audition.

"I'm getting an opportunity now to pitch and that's all I can
ask for," Purcey said. "That's what I want to do, try to make
the most of it."

Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion and Travis Snider each hit a
two-run single for the Blue Jays, who batted around in the third
and eighth innings.

Attendance was 11,598, the third straight game Toronto has drawn
fewer than 12,000 fans. Toronto's all-time low is 10,074, set
April 17, 1979, against the Chicago White Sox.

"Fans were coming out when we were winning, they were supporting
us," Gaston said before the game. "I think that's what we have
to do, we have to put a winning club out there on the field and
I think they'll come back. Simple as that."

Baltimore loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth but Shawn
Camp came on and got Mora to ground into a fielder's choice.

Right-hander Jason Frasor gave up a sacrifice fly to Felix Pie
in the ninth.

Orioles rookie Chris Tillman (2-4) allowed four runs and six
hits in five-plus innings. He walked three and struck out five.

"He gives you glimpses and he shows you at times what he's going
to be all about," Orioles manager Dave Trembley said. "That's
what excites you about him. Then he kind of runs into a little
bit of a wall and has trouble finishing off hitters."

Pie's RBI single gave Baltimore a 1-0 lead in the second but
Toronto took the lead with a three-run third. Lind singled home
two runs and, after Vernon Wells grounded out, Tillman walked
three straight batters, including one to Snider with the bases
loaded.

Tillman, who had walked only 20 batters in 58 innings coming in,
was at a loss to explain his sudden lapse in control.

"That was one of those things where it just all of a sudden hits
you and then it's gone," Tillman said. "I was like 'How did that
just happen? What just happened?' I got in the dugout after that
inning. I was mad but I was shocked more than mad. I don't know
what happened there."

Overbay chased Tillman with a leadoff homer to right in the
sixth, his 15th.

Left-hander Alberto Castillo got two outs before Trembley
brought in right-hander Cla Meredith to face McDonald, who
homered to left, his third. The drive snapped an 0-for-13 slump.

"To me, that was a pivotal run," Trembley said.

Encarnacion and Snider hit two-run singles in a four-run eighth,
with all the runs charged to right-hander Bob McCrory.

Nick Markakis entered in a 5-for-40 slump but hit a leadoff
single in the second and scored Baltimore's first run. Trembley
said Markakis could get his first day off this season on
Tuesday. Markakis has started 149 of Baltimore's 150 games. He
came off the bench in a June 21 victory at Philadelphia.

NOTES: Blue Jays SS Marco Scutaro has a tear in his right heel
and is likely done for the season, Gaston said. ... Toronto LHP
Brian Tallet, who left his last start after he was hit on the
right foot by a line drive, is expected to start Tuesday against
Baltimore, Gaston said. ... The roof was closed when the game
began, opened in the early innings, then closed again in the
eighth. ... Baltimore is 6-24 in road games against AL East
opponents.