Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista had his MLB-leading 29th and 30th home runs of the season against the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday. (Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press)

It was a different day, but the same result for the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday.

The team took their 11th straight win against the Baltimore Orioles at the Rogers Centre in the same fashion they did on Monday: an early lead powered by a Jose Bautista home run.

Only this time, Bautista blasted a pair out of the park — his MLB-leading 29th and 30th homers — and it was Ricky Romero (8-7) on the mound, scattering nine hits with eight strikeouts over 7 2/3 innings for Toronto.

The new victims of Bautista's affinity for the long ball were O's starter Kevin Millwood (2-10) — who went 5 1/3 with 10 hits, six runs and six strikeouts — and reliever Alfredo Simon.

A day after using an 8-0 lead to coast to a 9-5 victory, the Blue Jays stuck to the script and didn't waste any time jumping on Millwood. The bottom of the first featured back-to-back singles for Fred Lewis and Yunel Escobar, followed by Bautista's 29th home run of the year, crushing a fastball to the second deck for the early 3-0 lead.

"I just didn't make very many good pitches tonight," Millwood said. "A guy that's swinging the bat as well as [Bautista] is, if you don't throw really good pitches, he's going to hit it hard."

The quick start also signalled a 10-game hitting streak for Escobar — who went 3-for-5 on the night — as well as the third consecutive game where Bautista has gone deep on an opposing pitcher.

'Way over my expectations'

He added his 30th in the eighth inning, a two-run shot off Simon to mark a 4-for-4 outing with five RBIs on the night and his fifth multi-homer game of the season.

"I figured I was going to be able to at least hit the same amount [of homers] that I usually do, like 10 or 15," Bautista said. "This is way over my expectations but I'm going to keep going out there and hoping for some more."

Millwood gave up a bases-loaded walk in the third inning before Vernon Wells knocked a two-out, two-RBI double to make it 6-0 after four innings.

Romero looked relaxed and in control in his 21st start of the season, surrendering only one hit over the first four innings — a ground-rule double by the Orioles' Adam Jones in the second.

The Blue Jays' lefty was helped out from time to time by his defence — notably an over-the-shoulder catch by Wells on a long fly ball by Baltimore's Julio Lugo to end the top of the third.

Escobar also helped out Romero's cause with a highlight reel play for the second out of the fifth inning. Hustling to grab a Jake Fox hit up the middle, the Blue Jays' new shortstop used his glove to flick the ball behind his back to Hill.

'It should be play of the week'

Escobar said he'd never made that kind of play before.

"I don't recommend they practise it either," Escobar joked through a translator.

"It should be the play of the week," Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said. "If not, I'd like to see what the play of the week is."

In the sixth, the Orioles were able to string together a pair of one-out singles by Miguel Tejada and Nick Markakis, but Romero shut the door on them with back-to-back strikeouts to Luke Scott and Jones.

Matt Wieters, who hit two homers against Brandon Morrow on Monday, was the only batter to hit off Romero in the seventh —notching a single before the pitcher rattled off three more strikeouts.

The sixth was the end of the line for Millwood — a single for Escobar and a walk for Bautista after a few close calls with the slugger looking for home run No. 30. Michael Gonzalez was brought in to clean up and end the inning, and Bautista snagged his 30th off Simon in the bottom of the eighth.

The Orioles got on the board in that inning and were able to end Romero's night with a pair of runs off four hits, but Scott Downs took the mound and notched the final four outs to keep Toronto's dominance over their AL East rivals intact.

with files from the Associated Press