Globe & Mail: Jays drop battle for first place

It was a battle of the early-season titans, and, no, you don’t have to adjust your reading glasses.

It really did feature the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles, not the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees as we’ve all been programmed to expect from recent seasons.
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And by the time the frost settled — the game-time temperature was 14, with a stiff breeze blowing through Camden Yards — it was the Orioles who found themselves roosting all alone at the top of the standings, thanks to a 4-3 victory over the Blue Jays last night.

The spectacle of two teams jostling for first place did not exactly capture the imagination of Orioles fans, who for the most part chose to sit this one out, with only 11,510 on hand.
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“They outpitched us, they outhit us and they outplayed us,” came the succinct summation from Jays manager John Gibbons. “But we hung tough. We made it scary.”

It’s like 1989 all over again!