Tomoyuki Sugano made his MLB debut for the Baltimore Orioles, but his team fell against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre.

The Blue Jays¡¯ Tyler Heineman hit his second career home run, and Chris Bassitt pitched a resourceful six innings to help the home team earn a 3-1 win.

George Springer had two RBIs to help give the Blue Jays a split in the season-opening four-game series.

The Orioles were 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.

Baltimore¡¯s Ryan O¡¯Hearn singled with two outs in the first inning and slid into third on a close play on Tyler O¡¯Neill¡¯s single to left. He scored when Bassitt threw a wild pitch.

Sugano, making his major league debut after a distinguished career in Japan, consistently fell behind in the count in the early innings. He walked Bo Bichette on four pitches to open the bottom of the first. Andres Gimenez hit a two-out double and Springer lined a two-run single to center.

Sugano allowed two runs, four hits and two walks with one strikeout in four innings before leaving with apparent hand cramps. He made one warmup pitch prior to the fifth before a trainer was summoned to the mound. Matt Bowman took over after being promoted from Triple-A Norfolk on Sunday, with Albert Suarez going on the injured list due to shoulder inflammation.

Bassitt escaped jams during his six-inning outing and did not have a clean inning, allowing one run, eight hits and two walks. The Orioles had two runners on base in the third, fourth and fifth innings.

Brendon Little replaced Bassitt and pitched a perfect seventh.

Heineman led off the home half of the seventh with a home run to left field off Cionel Perez. It was his first home run since 2019 when he was with the Miami Marlins.

Toronto reliever Yariel Rodriguez pitched around an eighth-inning single with two strikeouts.

Jeff Hoffman, an offseason signing, pitched a clean ninth with two strikeouts to earn his first save as a Blue Jay.