BALTIMORE-The Baltimore Orioles lost their 107th game, tied for most in a season since their arrival in 1954, falling to the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 Monday night.
Rookie Ryan Borucki pitched eight innings of three-hit ball for the Blue Jays, who have won 13 of 17 games between the two bottom teams in the AL East.
Toronto stands 25 games better than the Orioles, whose 43-107 record is worst in the majors. The only other Orioles team with 107 defeats was the 1988 club, which started 0-21 on its way to a 54-107 finish.
This Baltimore team has been blanked 15 times and owns a major league-worst 26-49 record at home. Only 8,198 fans showed up at soggy Camden Yards to watch yet another defeat.
The franchise record for losses is 111, by the 1939 St. Louis Browns. After going 54-100 in 1953, the Browns moved to Baltimore. The major league record is 120 losses, set by the expansion New York Mets in 1962.
Borucki (4-4) struck out seven and walked one in his 15th career start. The left-hander allowed two runners to reach third base, one of whom got there during a near triple play.
With runners on first and second and no outs in the Baltimore third, Austin Wynns hit a low liner to shortstop Lourdes Gurriel Jr., who gloved the ball and then let it drop to the ground. The ploy caught the Orioles flat-footed, and Toronto turned a 6-4-3 double play before Baltimore's Renato Nunez barely beat the relay to third base.
The Blue Jays got all the offense they needed in the third inning against Evan Phillips, who was obtained from Atlanta in the July 31 trade that sent Kevin Gausman and Darren O'Day to the Braves.
Making his first major league start, Phillips (0-1) retired the first five batters he faced before Kevin Pillar doubled, Rowdy Tellez hit an RBI single and Danny Jansen homered to left.
Pillar homered in the seventh, and Aledmys Diaz went deep in the ninth.
Mets 9, Phillies 4
PHILADELPHIA-Michael Conforto had a career-high six RBIs and finished a triple shy of the cycle, Zack Wheeler pitched seven solid innings for his career-best 12th win and the New York Mets beat the fading Philadelphia Phillies 9-4 on Monday night.
The Phillies entered the day seven games behind Atlanta for the NL East lead. The Braves' magic number to clinch the division dropped to seven, pending the outcome of Atlanta's game against St. Louis.
Conforto had a two-run single in the fifth, an RBI double in the seventh and a three-run homer in the ninth for the Mets, who have won 7 of 11 and are 26-17 over their last 43 games. Conforto has 75 RBIs, including 45 since the All-Star break, second most in the NL over that span behind Milwaukee's Christian Yelich.
Wheeler (12-7) allowed four runs and three hits to become the first Mets pitcher since Steve Trachsel in 2001 to record nine wins after the All-Star break. Since the break, the right-hander is 9-1 with a 1.68 ERA in 11 starts.
J.P. Crawford had a three-run triple for the Phillies, whose slim playoff chances took another hit. Philadelphia began play 6 back of first-place Atlanta in the NL East and five games out of the wild card. The Phillies have lost 8 of 11.
Conforto's two-out double in the seventh off Tommy Hunter (4-3) snapped a 4-all tie and helped the Mets continue their mastery of Philadelphia. New York has won 7 of 11 against the Phillies this season and is 45-20 in Philadelphia since 2012.
Wheeler didn't allow a hit until Wilson Ramos' leadoff single in the fifth that caromed off the glove of diving second baseman Jeff McNeil and into short right field. Wheeler then gave up a single to Nick Williams and hit Odubel Herrera with a pitch to load the bases. Crawford cleared them with a triple to right, and Cesar Hernandez's sacrifice fly scored Crawford to tie it at 4.
The Mets took a 4-0 lead against Jake Arrieta. Austin Jackson's RBI double in the second got New York on the board, and the Mets scored three more runs in the fifth on Amed Rosario's sacrifice fly and Conforto's single to center.
Arrieta was tagged for four runs and nine hits in five innings.
Pirates 7, Royals 6
PITTSBURGH-Rookie Jacob Stallings hit a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-6 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.
After Jordan Luplow grounded into a double play, Kevin Kramer walked and moved to second on Kevin Newman's single. Stallings then singled into left field off Ben Lively (0-3), scoring Kramer.
It was Stallings' second career game-ending hit. The catcher also had one in 2016.
The Pirates scored twice with two outs in the eighth inning to tie the game at 6-all. The first run scored when first baseman Ryan O'Hearn failed to handle a throw from third baseman Hunter Dozier on a grounder by Pablo Reyes. Starling Marte followed with an RBI triple.
Newman had three of Pittsburgh's 15 hits, and the rookie shortstop extended his hitting streak to six games as the Pirates won for the ninth time in 12 games.
Edgar Santana (3-3) pitched a 1-2-3 ninth.
O'Hearn's 11th home run in 36 games since making his debut July 31 led off the top of the eighth and gave the Royals a two-run lead.
Bell drew Pittsburgh to 5-4 in the seventh with a run-scoring single.
O'Hearn's RBI double capped a four-run fifth inning and put the Royals on top 5-3. That followed consecutive run-scoring singles by Adalberto Mondesi, Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez.
Gordon doubled in the game's first run in top of the third inning, and Corey Dickerson countered with an RBI single in the bottom half. Frazier's two-run single in the fourth gave the Pirates a short-lived 3-1 lead.
Kansas City's Brad Keller allowed four runs and 10 hits in six-plus innings. Pittsburgh's Joe Musgrove also pitched six innings, giving up five runs and eight hits.
Keller got his first major league hit when he singled off Musgrove to lead off the fifth inning. It came in Keller's second career at-bat after he struck out in the second.
O'Hearn's homer to right field off Steven Brault was the first allowed by the left-hander in 117 career plate appearances against left-handed batters.