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. ... 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The Socceroos face four months of painful reflection before theyll get a chance to remedy their dismal World Cup qualifying performance against Thailand.Tuesday nights lacklustre 2-2 draw with Group B stragglers Thailand has left both the Australian squad and their hopes of making the cut for a fourth consecutive World Cup hurting.Having slipped out of the automatic qualifying spots into third place, the Socceroos next fixtures in March, against Iraq in neutral territory and the UAE in Sydney, take on a whole new level of importance.While qualification is still in their hands, any room for error has now gone.Ange Postecoglous national team entered Bangkok as red-hot favourites and departed with a weak 2-2 stalemate that threw up more questions than it did answers.Just as difficult as it was to miss the chance to top their group, left-back Brad Smith was dreading the long period of stewing over everything that should have gone differently.Its just disappointingg that weve got to go into the four-month break now before the next game, Smith said.dddddddddddd.If you go into the break with a win its a lot better, but now weve got to think about it for four months.Not one of us really performed that well, and it showed.Giving the ball away a lot, it affects the team. Its very disappointing from every single player.Former Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich slammed Australias display at Rajamangala National Stadium as pathetic and the worst hes seen in Postecoglous three years at the helm.Defender Trent Sainsbury said the team didnt deserve to take a point, which they only managed courtesy of captain Mile Jedinaks two penalties.You can look at a whole bunch of things, make a whole bunch of excuses, but at the end of the day the Thais put up a good fight and we let ourselves down, Sainsbury said. ' ' '