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Aaron Sanchez threw his second straight quality start and Luke Maile drew a bases loaded walk-off walk in the 10th inning to lead the Blue Jays past the Orioles 4-3 on Saturday.  TSN Baseball Reporter Scott Mitchell provides his key takeaways from the game:

GAME 64, JUNE 9: ORIOLES AT JAYS
RESULT: 4-3 win in 10 innings
RECORD: 29-35
STREAK: W3

1—Third extra-innings game this homestand

Nine innings hasn’t been enough on three occasions this week and the Jays have a pair of extra-innings wins to show for it.

After losing a 3-2 lead in the eighth inning on a Tyler Clippard wild pitch, Orioles reliever Mychal Givens returned the favour in the bottom of the 10th, walking Justin Smoak, giving up a single to Kendrys Morales, hitting Randal Grichuk to load the bases and then issuing a game-winning free pass to Luke Maile on four pitches.

Amazingly, it was Maile’s third walk-off of the season.

It leaves the Jays on the verge of a much-needed four-game sweep of the team with the fewest wins in baseball and it’s also the first home series they’ve won since sweeping Kansas City in mid-April.

2—Late hiccup leaves Sanchez with no-decision

The Jays rotation is suddenly on a roll, with Aaron Sanchez providing their sixth-straight quality start on Saturday.

Sure, the Orioles sport the worst offence in the American League at just 3.6 runs per game, but Sanchez blanked them for six innings, before running into some trouble in the seventh.

Holding a 2-0 lead, Sanchez gave up a single, a double and a walk with one out to shave the advantage to one run, leaving the game in Danny Barnes’ hands with runners at first and third.

An Adam Jones RBI single quickly tied the game, sending Sanchez into no-decision territory, but the 101 pitches he threw in his second-longest outing of the year were a season high. 

As a whole, it was a second-straight quality start for Sanchez, and limiting the walks — he issued four of them — and fine-tuning the command are the next step towards getting back to the being the 2016 version that won the AL ERA crown with a 3.00 mark.

Sanchez will take a 4.33 ERA into his next start, which is slated to come Friday in the series opener at home against Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals.

3—Grichuk swinging a hot bat

After hitting two home runs in his first 27 games, Randal Grichuk has now swatted three in his last five, sending a Kevin Gausman fastball over the fence in the seventh inning.

It’s been quite the turnaround for the 26-year-old right fielder, who has changed his mechanics in the box and is now featuring a more upright stance.

Grichuk is hitting .389 with six extra-base hits — three homers, three doubles — over his last five, and he’s starting to close in on the Mendoza Line with a .157 batting average.

A week ago in Detroit, it was .099.

4—Contributions throughout lineup is the recipe

When the Jays have been going well this year offensively, it’s been a group effort with everyone chipping in.

No one bat can be counted on to carry the load, especially with Josh Donaldson on the disabled list.

On Saturday, seven players in the lineup had hits, and the only two players that didn’t were Smoak and Maile, who keyed the walk-off win in the 10th inning.

In the three wins over the O’s, Jays bats have produced a total of 37 hits.

5—Knee giving Travis problems after near-collision

One day after narrowly avoiding what could have been an ugly collision with Kevin Pillar on a pop up into centre field, Devon Travis was out of the lineup, with manager John Gibbons saying his knee is “aching a little bit.”

Travis’ right knee banged into Pillar on the miscommunication, which is, of course, significant because it’s the same knee he had surgery on last June, ending his season.

There’s no indication it’s anything serious, but Travis’ track record of health doesn’t inspire much confidence.

Since returning from his Triple-A stint on May 22, Travis is slashing .267/.327/.400 with one home run in 49 plate appearances.

He’s hitting just .198 on the season in 32 games.

UP NEXT: RHP Alex Cobb (2-7, 6.19) vs. RHP Marco Estrada (2-6, 5.29) on Sunday, 1:07 p.m.

VLAD JR. WATCH: Nothing to see here. On the seven-day DL with “left knee pain,” Vladdy Jr. is in Dunedin under the watch of the team’s medical staff for the time being.