TORONTO -- Aaron Sanchez stayed perfect against the Orioles and kept the Toronto Blue Jays on track for a playoff berth.Josh Donaldson hit a two-run homer, Sanchez struck out 10 and Toronto beat Baltimore 5-1 on Tuesday night in the opener of their AL wild-card showdown.Ezequiel Carrera also homered as the Blue Jays won for the sixth time in eight games. They lead the wild-card standings by two games over the Orioles with five to play.Sanchez (14-2) struck out the first four hitters he faced and five of the first six. He gave up one run and five hits over six innings to win for the first time in four starts.Weve seen him quite a bit and it was another impressive outing for him, Orioles slugger Mark Trumbo said. Hes got a big-time fastball.Sanchez walked three and reached double digits in strikeouts for the second time. Hes 4-0 with a 3.00 ERA in five starts against Baltimore this season.Having faced the Orioles so frequently, Sanchez changed his pitch selection to keep Baltimore off balance.I threw a lot more four-seamers, the right-hander said. Tonight they were super aggressive. I was able to locate my heater when I needed to.Toronto is 10-7 against Baltimore with two meetings left, giving the Blue Jays the tiebreaker if the teams finish with the same record.Baltimore is one game ahead of Detroit for the leagues final playoff spot.The victory also kept the Blue Jays alive in the AL East race because the Red Sox lost 6-4 to the New York Yankees. But just one Toronto loss or a Boston win would wrap up the division crown for the Red Sox.Orioles slugger Chris Davis was ejected for arguing with plate umpire Will Little after striking out against Joe Biagini in the seventh, the third time in three at-bats Davis was caught looking. Baltimore manager Buck Showalter also was tossed after he came out to argue.I just felt like the pitches that were being called against me werent quality pitches, Davis said.Batting leadoff in place of injured second baseman Devon Travis (left shoulder), Carrera went 2 for 3 with two RBI and scored three runs.Hes been sparking us all year, Toronto manager John Gibbons said.Carrera walked in the first and scored when Donaldson homered off right-hander Kevin Gausman, his 37th.Carrera connected for an opposite-field drive in the third and drove in a run with a single in the fifth.Two batters later, Toronto made it 5-1 when Carrera scored on third baseman Manny Machados throwing error.We gave them a lot of margin for error, Showalter said.Gausman (8-12) allowed five runs, four earned, and seven hits in six innings. He gave up two home runs for the second straight start.We know we have to win to stay, Gausman said. With the two teams left that we have to play (Toronto and New York), were definitely up against the wall.NO DEBATE ABOUT ITWith a night off Monday, Showalter tried watching the presidential debate but didnt last long. After 30 minutes I had to turn it off, he said. It was embarrassing. Having passed on politics, Showalter said he ended up watching the movie Ghostbusters.TRAINERS ROOMOrioles: Ryan Flaherty replaced Davis. ... LHP Wade Miley left the team and returned home for the birth of his first child, a son. Hes expected to return in time for his next scheduled start, Friday or Saturday at Yankee Stadium.Blue Jays: Toronto reliever Joaquin Benoit will miss the rest of the regular season after tearing his left calf muscle during the second of two bench-clearing scraps in Monday nights loss to the Yankees. ... Travis is day to day after jamming his surgically repaired shoulder in the same melee with New York. ... Toronto recalled INF Andy Burns from the minors and selected the contract RHP Chris Smith.UP NEXTOrioles RHP Chris Tillman (16-6, 3.84 ERA) faces Blue Jays LHP Francisco Liriano (8-13, 4.88) on Wednesday night. Tillman is 2-6 with a 7.51 ERA in 12 career starts at Toronto. Liriano pitched six shutout innings against the Yankees last Friday to earn his first win since Aug. 26. Swell Fles . The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didnt like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose. Swell Goedkoop . Self was acquired from the Buffalo Bandits in a trade for Alex Hill midway through last season, and made his debut in Rochester on March 16, 2013. http://www.swellkopen.be/swell-waterfles.html . The Islanders dealt Thomas Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens after less than a year on Long Island. Meanwhile, the Oilers dealt long-time sniper Ales hemsky to the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. Swell Waterfles Kopen . Its an influence in football and a big part of the game. Swell Kopen . But now that hes in the NHL, the Calgary Flames centre showed big improvement in that department by scoring the winner in the eighth round of a 5-4 shootout victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday. Kevin Muscat has Melbourne Victory in second place on the A-League table but he sees the team improving further, after a 2-0 defeat of Newcastle Jets.The weight of numbers told for Victory at AAMI Park.Muscats side hit 21 shots while passing at 85 per cent, dominating possession and territory.Yet for almost an hour the match remained goalless as the busy James Troisi got unlucky and the formidable Besart Berisha remained subdued.Troisi took 10 of those shots in the most lively performance of his second stint with Victory, telling Fox Sports hed worked hard to recover his conditioning after a tough season in Saudi Arabia and China.I had a couple shots today and it wasnt my day. But the most important thing was we got the three points, he said.We could have had a few more today.Berisha struggled to test Jack Duncan, producing a shocker on 13 minutes when it was easier to score than miss from Troisis ball.The Albanian has scored just twice from open play this season but Muscat said he saw his frontman playing a pivotal role.What were finding in the moment with Bes is that players around him are getting more opportunities because he draws so much attention, he said.Hes doing a selfless task at the moment for uss.dddddddddddd Those goals will come for him.It was left to another Victory attacked to be the game changer: Marco Rojas.Rojas broke the deadlock by striking a deflected free kick before picking up the ball in Newcastles half and finishing past Duncan two minutes later.The Kiwi Messi has picked up where he left the A-League three seasons ago, and is the only man to score or assist in every match hes played in this season.Muscat said the deflected opener - recorded as an own goal - needed to go to his winger.Its gotta be his goal doesnt it?, he asked.Hes struck the ball on target and its been deflected in.Maybe theyll have a rethink and hell be awarded it. I think he should be.The title-winning coach suggested he wasnt surprised to learn of their new ladder position - even if others werent as pleased with their start to the season.There was a bit of frustration growing from outside AAMI Park and outside of our offices, he said.Weve had a very good start to the year.For the first time tonight we had some real selection dilemmas. People putting pressure on players in front of them. ' ' '