THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE -- Michael Aubrey scored the winning run on Brandon League's second throwing error in the 11th inning Sunday, giving the Baltimore Orioles a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays and a three-game sweep.
Aubrey led off the 11th with a single and took second when League (3-6) threw wildly to first on a bunt by Lou Montanez. Jeff Fiorentino then laid down a bunt, and after League's low throw to first base skipped into the outfield, Aubrey scampered home.
Matt Albers (3-6) pitched a perfect 11th for the Orioles, who finished the season with a four-game winning streak, their longest since a five-game run in mid-June.
Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Bautista and John McDonald homered for the Blue Jays. Ricky Romero completed a solid rookie season by allowing four runs and five hits in seven innings.
Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie reached several milestones, not all of them good. By pitching 7 2-3 innings, the right-hander reached 200 in a season for the first time. But he also yielded three homers, matching the franchise record of 35 in a season, and his two walks gave him a career-high 60.
Nick Markakis hit a two-run shot for the Orioles, giving him 18 homers and 101 RBIs for the season.
Melvin Mora, whose contract expires after this season, went 0 for 2 in what was probably his final game with Baltimore. The third baseman ranks in the top 10 on the Orioles' career list in at-bats, runs, total bases, doubles, homers and RBIs.
"Sometimes you have to realize this is a business, and if you have to go, you have to go," Mora said.
Mora was replaced in the sixth inning by pinch-hitter Justin Turner, who delivered a two-run single to give Baltimore a 4-3 lead. After the inning, Mora walked to the top of the dugout steps and received a warm ovation from the crowd.
Toronto went up 1-0 in the first inning when Encarnacion hit his eighth homer. In the bottom half, Brian Roberts singled and scored when Markakis hit a 3-2 pitch over the right-field wall.
The Blue Jays used successive doubles by Randy Ruiz and Travis Snyder to tie it in the fourth, and Bautista hit a shot to right in the fifth for a 3-2 lead.
Romero retired 13 straight before Fiorentino singled to open the sixth, which led to Turner's single.
McDonald hit his fourth homer of the season in the seventh to tie it.
NOTES: Roberts' first-inning steal gave him four straight seasons with at least 30 SBs. ... Encarnacion finished with seven homers in his last 20 games. ... The Orioles finished 1-8 in Toronto and 8-1 in Baltimore. ... The crowd of 17,969 pushed the Orioles over 1.9 million for the 21st consecutive year.
