ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blaze Jordan and Ramón Urías homered early to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-5 on Thursday, snapping a five-game losing streak.
Riley O’Brien pitched a scoreless ninth inning to earn his National League-leading 34th save after allowing a combined seven runs and taking the loss in his previous two outings.
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Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday (7) steals second ahead of the tag from St. Louis Cardinals shortstop José Fermín, left, during the eighth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Joshua Báez (22) and José Fermín (15) celebrate a victory over the Baltimore Orioles following a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Ramón Urías is congratulated by teammates after hitting a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Ramón Urías watches his two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Blaze Jordan hits a three-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The teams traded runs in the eighth after Coby Mayo hit a three-run homer, his 18th of the season, off Caleb Ferguson in the seventh to cut the St. Louis lead to 6-4.
Urías hit his third homer off starter Trevor Rogers (9-9) in the fourth to give the Cardinals a 5-0 cushion.
Rogers allowed six runs and seven hits with seven strikeouts in five innings.
Jordan launched his third homer to center field in the second after Alec Burleson singled to extend his hitting streak to 13 games and Joshua Báez doubled, putting St. Louis ahead 3-0.
Jordan left in the top of the eighth after diving awkwardly into third base to tag out Gunnar Henderson when Samuel Basallo hit a grounder to pitcher George Soriano.
Luis Gastelum (4-3) tossed 1 1/3 perfect innings after Justin Bruihl allowed one run in 1 2/3 innings and Gordon Graceffo pitched three perfect innings as an opener for the Cardinals.
Before the game, St. Louis selected the contract of Cade Winquest from Triple-A Memphis and placed fellow right-hander Peter Strzelecki on the 15-day injured list with right forearm extensor inflammation.
Orioles: RHP Brandon Young (9-3, 3.50 ERA) is scheduled face the Athletics on the road Friday night.
Cardinals: LHP Quinn Mathews (0-2, 6.43 ERA) will make his fourth career start at home against Pittsburgh RHP Jared Jones (2-5, 4.76).
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Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday (7) steals second ahead of the tag from St. Louis Cardinals shortstop José Fermín, left, during the eighth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Joshua Báez (22) and José Fermín (15) celebrate a victory over the Baltimore Orioles following a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Ramón Urías is congratulated by teammates after hitting a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Ramón Urías watches his two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Blaze Jordan hits a three-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada.
The Republican president signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update the lake's name in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.
Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as the U.S. announced it was imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down. Trump has been needling America’s northern neighbor since he returned to the White House last year, suggesting the ally with whom the U.S. once had warm relations should instead be absorbed as the 51st state.
Canada responded to Trump’s import taxes this week by imposing retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment.
Trump, who signed the order as he was sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, had a large sign behind him propped on a stand with a map of the Great Lakes. Over Lake Ontario, in big red letters, the map read “Lake America.”
On the other side of the president was another map with the words, “MAKING THE GREAT LAKES EVEN GREATER.”
Trump said as he was signing the order that he'd “notified all of the various people that we have to notify. So, we’ve done everything that you have to do.”
“And this is official, effective immediately,” he added.
But the executive order Trump signed shows that the changes are supposed to be made within 30 days.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the move, invoking the lake’s Indigenous roots and noting that the name predates both Canadian Confederation and the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
“Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always," he wrote.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston dismissed Trump’s move in a social media post, writing: “We’re into some real foolishness now. It’s Lake Ontario, buddy.”
The lake is one of multiple Great Lakes that the U.S. and Canada share borders along. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat whose state shares a border on the lake, wrote on X in response to the White House's announcement that, “New York won’t be calling it that.”
There is no single international body that determines names of international bodies of water and Trump has wide latitude over how the U.S. government recognizes geographic places and landmarks.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has traded insults with Trump, this week brushed aside the prospect of Trump changing the lake's name as “a lot of rhetoric.”
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.” The province of Ontario, founded in 1867, took its name from the lake.
Trump said that while his action was not meant to send any particular geopolitical message, “Canada’s been ripping us off for a long time” on trade and military issues.
“They wanted to be treated like a state and they’re not a state,” the president said. “We just can’t do that anymore.”
“We love the people of Canada,” Trump added. “I don’t think their representatives do, an appropriate job. Maybe they’ll change. I really don’t know. It doesn’t make much difference.”
The move is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
Trump scribbled his name with a Sharpie pen on the executive order, then held it up for the cameras, offering, “And we filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.”
He also suggested his push to rename bodies of water may not be finished.
“So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” Trump said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them.”
Associated Press writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
City Councillor Renaldo Agostino looks at the Detroit skyline across the Detroit River Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, in Windsor, Ontario (AP Photo/Mike Householder)
People look out across Lake Ontario from the harbor in Toronto, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Keito Newman/The Canadian Press via AP)
President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
