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Toronto Blue Jays (43-44) at Baltimore Orioles (39-47), 7:05 p.m.

Sports Network | July 10, 2009

(Sports Network) - Scott Rolen tries to push his career-best hitting streak to 26 games this evening, when the Toronto Blue Jays open a three-game set with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.

Rolen is hitting .390 with three homers and 16 RBI over the course of his run. With another hit tonight, he would match John Olerud and Shannon Stewart for the second longest streak in Blue Jays history while moving within two of Shawn Green's franchise-record.

Toronto gave Rolen a day off on Thursday as it dropped a 3-2 decision to the Tampa Bay Rays and was swept in the three-game set at Tropicana Field.

John McDonald went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored while Adam Lind drove in the other run for the Blue Jays, who have dropped six of their last seven games and 10 of their last 12 to fall below .500 (43-44).

Roy Halladay (10-3), who has been in the headlines after Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi said earlier this week that he would listen to offers for the former Cy Young winner, threw seven innings and was charged with three runs on nine hits with eight strikeouts.

Heading to the hill for the Jays tonight will be left-handed rookie Brett Cecil, who is 2-1 with a 6.23 earned run average. Cecil was roughed up by the New York Yankees in his last trip to the hill on Sunday, surrendering seven runs and nine hits in just 3 2/3 innings. However, he did not factor in the decision of his team's 10-8 loss.

Cecil has not won since beating the Chicago White Sox back on May 15. This will be his first-ever start against the Orioles.

Baltimore will counter with a rookie of its own in right-hander Jason Berken, who is winless in his last seven appearances and 1-5 with a 6.25 ERA overall. Berken's lone win, though, came at the expense of the Blue Jays back on May 26, when he allowed two runs and seven hits in five innings.

The Orioles come into tonight's tilt on the heels of taking two of three from the Seattle Mariners to close out an otherwise disappointing seven-game road trip.

Baltimore won just three times on the trek, but avoided a fifth loss on the trip with a five-run ninth-inning rally to pull out a 5-3 win in Wednesday's rubber match with the Mariners.

The Orioles have split their six matchups with the Blue Jays this season, but swept a three-game set from them the last time the teams met at Camden Yards in late May.