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(Sports Network) - Brett Lawrie will start at second base for the Blue Jays on Saturday when they continue their three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles. The Blue Jays activated Lawrie off the disabled list and assigned infielder Munenori Kawasaki to Triple-A Buffalo. Lawrie has been out since spraining his left ankle in a game against Atlanta on May 28. The Orioles will try for their fourth straight win after beating the Blue Jays 8-5 on Friday night. Chris Davis historic first half continued, as he finished 2-for-4 while belting his Major League-leading 35th home run. With two more RBI this weekend, Davis would join Miguel Cabrera as the only players in league history to record at least 30 homers and 90 RBI before the All-Star break. Adam Jones had three hits, including his 17th homer of the year, and J.J. Hardy also left the yard for his 16th, upping Baltimores home rum total to 128, best in the bigs. "These guys grind out at-bats all ballgame long. Its fun to watch," Orioles winning pitcher Chris Tillman said. "Ive said it a hundred times -- the quicker you get these guys back in the dugout and in the batters box, the more is going to happen." Tillman (11-3) did his part getting back on track after having a personal six-game winning streak snapped in his latest start, allowing three runs over six innings of work. After Tommy Hunter found himself in some trouble in the ninth, Jim Johnson recorded the final out for his Major League-leading 32nd save. Mark Buehrle (5-6) was saddled with the loss, surrendering eight earned runs in six innings to up his ERA to 4.89. The Blue Jays collected 14 hits on the night -- five more than the Orioles -- but left 20 runners on base. Edwin Encarnacion added to the fireworks with his 24th home run of the season, as did J.P. Arencibia with his 16th. Todd Redmond (1-1, 3.55) is set to make his second start of the season on Saturday afternoon for Toronto. Redmond allowed just one hit over five innings of work on July 7 in a win over Minnesota, the first of his career. "He couldnt have done a better job," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of his rookie. Redmond was 3-1 with Triple-A Buffalo this season but had an ERA of 5.06 over 26 2/3 innings. For the Orioles, Jason Hammel will take the hill attempting to win his first game since late May. Despite his winless streak, Hammel is still a solid 7-5 on the year, although his 5.03 ERA has been far from ideal. Despite earning a no-decision in his latest outing, the 30-year-old right- hander put together one of his best starts of the season on July 7, allowing just six hits and one earned run in five innings of work against the Yankees. Hammel faced the Blue Jays on June 21, and while he struck out seven batters in six innings, he gave up four earned runs in the no-decision. Toronto has lost eight of its last 11 on the road and had a four-game winning streak versus the Orioles halted. 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Hazard cut in from the left and scored with a swerving right-footed shot for ninth goal of the season, which proved to be enough for the victory despite Chelseas forwards again lacking a cutting edge up front. METAIRIE, La. -- Roman Harpers recent experience tells him it would be short-sighted for the Saints to succumb to pessimism this early in the season.The Saints are 0-2 for a third straight year, and the previous two campaigns didnt turn out well; New Orleans went 7-9 and missed the playoffs each time.But Harper spent his past two NFL seasons with another team -- defending NFC champion Carolina -- which has been among the leagues best since its seven-game winless streak in 2014.Going two straight months in Carolina my first year there without winning a game was very frustrating to me. I didnt understand it. I didnt accept it very well, Harper said, crediting Panthers coach Ron Rivera for doing a great job keeping everybody together.The Panthers won their final four regular season games of 2014 to win the NFC South, then opened last season on a 14-game winning streak, meaning they won 18 straight regular season games immediately after a stint in which theyd tied one and lost six straight.Now Harper, who returned this year to the club with which he began his career, hopes New Orleans can earn a tide-turning victory when its hosts NFC South Division rival Atlanta on Monday night. The Superdome is bound to be infused with energy and emotion for that game, when the Saints and their fans will mark the 10th anniversary of the renovated stadiums re-opening after Hurricane Katrina.If we got some kind of mojo or some kind of magic, its got to be this one, Harper said. So weve got to be desperate, man. Weve got to go out here and get this win. Winning just breeds confidence throughout a locker room and it breeds success.While the Saints margin for error is thinning, they havent been losing by much. The Raiders needed a late 2-point conversion to pull out a 35-34 victory in the Superdome in Week 1 and the New York Giants hit a field goal as time expired to beat visiting New Orleans 16-13 on Sunday.The Saints much-maligned, injury riddled defense looked its best in a while, producing three turnovers in New York while keep quarterback Eli Manning and the Giants offense out of the end zone. But this time, New Orleans normally prolific offense sputtered and the Saints were sunken by a blocked field goal attempt that the Giants returned for a touchdown.You have to learn how to not lose a game before you can ever learn how to win, Harper said. Those are the things andd growing pains that were going through right now, where were doing certain little things, where yesterday the blocked field goal cost us the game.dddddddddddd Other than that, we played pretty good.On defense, that is.Drew Brees and the Saints offense, which led the NFL with 507 yards in Week 1, finished with 288 at New York. Brees passed for one TD, down from four a week earlier. He still has not thrown an interception, making him the only QB since at least as far back as 1960 to be on an 0-2 team despite passing for five TDs without an interception during the first two weeks of the season.Weve gone down to the wire in two straight games and unfortunately come out on the losing end, Saints tight end Coby Fleener said. Hopefully we can not get discouraged by that and realize were one or two plays away.Heading into training camp, Saints coach Sean Payton emphasized the importance of trying to win preseason games to cultivate a competitive edge. He also said it would be important for his relatively young team to get off to a fast start in the regular season. Instead, the Saints havent yet won any preseason or regular season games.There is only one way to work yourself out of it, and its coming back and having a better week of preparation, Payton said Monday. I was encouraged with a lot of things that I saw on tape and yet discouraged in some areas. And in these days after here, we have to be brutally honest with ourselves, not only with the players but the coaches as well. We have to be better.Game notes Payton said after studying video of rookie Wil Lutzs blocked field goal in New York that the problem was the blocking along the right side of the line. He did not fault a play by name, but cited B-gap pressure between the guard Andrus Peat and tackle Terron Armstead. ... Payton said cornerback P.J. Williams, who was carted off the field Sunday and hospitalized to be evaluated for a possible concussion or spinal injury after taking a knee to the helmet, was traveling back to New Orleans on Monday afternoon. Payton said Williams was diagnosed with a concussion, but added that the news was otherwise positive, which is real encouraging.---Online: AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '