TORONTO (CBC) - Shaun Marcum struggled in his return to the rotation Tuesday night, but the Toronto Blue Jays bailed him out with the bats.

Alex Rios homered and Adam Lind came within a triple of hitting for the cycle as the Blue Jays outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 10-8 before a modest crowd of 15,184 at Camden Yards.

"It is just a good feeling to win like we did tonight, coming back the way we did," Lind said.

Lind had a career-high four hits, including a three-run homer, and John McDonald drove in four runs for the Blue Jays (49-51), who climbed over Baltimore and out of last place in the American League East Division.

Fredericton's Matt Stairs and Rod Barajas had Toronto's other runs batted in.

"I struggled a little when I first came back," said Lind, who is hitting .346 (27-78) with 22 RBIs in 22 games since he was recalled June 21.

"I just turned myself over to the [coaching] staff and put my future in their hands. I am a believer.

"When you say you have Cito Gaston as your manager, even my friends said, 'You have a guy like that, you listen to him. He has got to know what he is talking about.'"

Marcum, who was sidelined more than a month with a strained right elbow, was told he would be limited to roughly 70 pitches in his first start since June 18.

He threw 77 pitches - 49 for strikes - in 4 2/3 innings before giving way to rookie Jesse Carlson (2-1), who tossed 1 1/3 innings of one-hit relief.

Marcum was charged with seven runs - one unearned - on eight hits and three walks with three strikeouts.

"He put some pitches up and was not as sharp as he is going to be," Gaston said. "I'm glad we came away with the win, for his sake."

B.J. Ryan wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth inning to earn his 19th save in 21 opportunities.

Ryan surrendered a two-out RBI single to Mora and walked two batters to fill the bases for Ramon Hernandez, who flied out meekly to end the threat.

Mora finished with four hits, including a homer, and five RBIs for the Orioles (48-51).

"I like the RBIs," he said. "I have been doing that all year long."

Nick Markakis and Hernandez also homered in support of rookie starter Garrett Olson, who yielded six runs and nine hits with three walks and one strikeout in 4 2/3 innings pitched.

"If he trusted his stuff and attacked the hitters a little more aggressively, he probably would find the outcome a little bit more positive for him," Orioles manager Dave Trembley said. "But that is something he is going to have to figure out on his own."

Reliever Fernando Cabrera (0-1) suffered the loss.

Baltimore builds 4-0 lead

Baltimore took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning as Adam Jones was hit by a pitch and Markakis smacked a two-run homer to right field, his 15th of the season.

In the third, Markakis walked and Aubrey Huff singled to bring up Mora, who stroked a two-run double to make it 4-0.

"When you're facing a guy like Marcum and you get the runs off him early, you think you're going to be in a situation where you're going to have a good chance to win the game," Trembley said. "But you take nothing for granted.

"We let them back in the game. We just could not stop them."

Toronto struck back in the top of the fourth as McDonald delivered Scott Rolen with a run-scoring sacrifice fly to right.

Rios trimmed it to 4-2 in the fifth with his sixth homer of the season, a solo shot to left.

Lyle Overbay was hit by a pitch, Lind doubled and Kevin Mench was intentionally walked to load the bases for McDonald, who cleared them with a double off the left-field wall that bounced away from outfielder Luke Scott.

"Every time I get a chance to play, I try to do something to get myself back in the lineup," McDonald said. "You want to contribute, and I have not been able to do that as much as I would have liked to."

Cabrera relieved Olson at that point and promptly surrendered an RBI single to pinch-hitter Stairs that put Toronto ahead 6-4.

But the Orioles responded in the bottom of the inning as Huff singled and Mora homered to left to tie it 6-6.

Two outs later, Hernandez homered to left to make it 7-6.

The Blue Jays rallied for three runs with two out in the sixth on Overbay's single, a walk to Rolen and Lind's fifth homer, which cleared the wall in right.

"That was the pitch I wanted," Orioles rookie reliever Alberto Castillo said. "I just hung a slider and he is a good hitter and took a good swing."

Toronto scored its final run off reliever Dennis Sarfate in the eighth, when Rios doubled and scored on an RBI single from Barajas.

With files from the Canadian Press

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