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BALTIMORE - Roy Halladay scattered seven hits over seven innings, leading Toronto over the Baltimore Orioles 7-1 Thursday after the Blue Jays won a game that was suspended one night earlier.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay works against the Baltimore Orioles during the second inning of a 7-1 win Thursday in Baltimore.

In the suspended game, halted by rain in the sixth inning Wednesday, a strong performance by Toronto's bullpen preserved a 5-1 victory for A.J. Burnett.

Halladay (12-7) allowed one run, struck out six and walked one. The right-hander took over the major league lead in innings pitched (159 1-3) and lowered his ERA to 2.82.

Halladay is 18-4 lifetime against the Orioles, who fell a season-worst five games under .500 (48-53).

Adam Lind and Marco Scutaro each had three hits and scored twice for the Blue Jays, who won three of four from Baltimore after losing their previous seven series on the road.

Toronto built a 7-0 lead in the sixth inning against Daniel Cabrera (6-6), who was lifted after giving up a season-high seven earned runs and 11 hits. Cabrera is 1-5 in 12 starts since May 20.

After a wild pitch by Cabrera and an RBI single by Lyle Overbay made it 2-0 in the third, Brad Wilkerson hit a run-scoring single in the fourth. Overbay added a sacrifice fly in the fifth, and a two-run single by Gregg Zaun chased Cabrera during a three-run sixth. Zaun's hit snapped an 0-for-19 skid.

Baltimore got its lone run in the bottom half on a sacrifice fly by Luke Scott. The Orioles went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position.

In the earlier game, Burnett (11-9) gave up one run and six hits, striking out seven, in five innings Wednesday night. The Blue Jays took a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth before play was suspended by a thunderstorm.

The game resumed with Burnett watching in the dugout. Jesse Carlson started the sixth and got four straight outs, Shawn Camp retired the only two batters he faced to end the seventh and Scott Downs finished with two innings of two-hit ball.

"Let's thank the bullpen," Burnett said. "They came out and finished out what I started from the get-go."

Elsewhere:

Giants 1 Nationals 0

At San Francisco, Matt Cain pitched a four-hitter, Dave Roberts singled home a run in the eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants earned their first three-game home sweep of the season with a 1-0 win over the Washington Nationals.

Cain (6-8), the hard-throwing right-hander who's had his share of hard luck the past two seasons, retired his first 11 batters and didn't issue a walk for the first time this year. After going 0-2 in his previous three starts, he struck out four in an efficient, 113-pitch performance to boost his strikeout total to 130.

Cain's only other shutout came May 21, 2006, at Oakland. This was the Giants' seventh shutout this year and the 13th time Washington has been blanked, a major league high.

Mets 3 Phillies 1

In New York, Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning and Oliver Perez stifled the Philadelphia Phillies again, helping the New York Mets earn a 3-1 win Thursday that gave them sole possession of first place in the NL East.

Perez struck out 12 in 7 2-3 innings, and Billy Wagner got three outs for his second save in as many days. The Mets took two of three in the series after blowing a three-run lead in the ninth inning of the opener, putting them alone in first place for the first time since April 19.