BALTIMORE—Marcus Stroman is in a league of his own.

No other pitcher in Major League Baseball has given up as many hits this year: 106.

On Sunday, at Camden Yards, the 25-year-old supposed ace of Toronto’s staff allowed another 10 hits, with balls shooting to every area of the pretty park as Baltimore scored seven runs on his hill watch.

Mostly they didn’t leave the confines — only Matt Wieters jacked him — but that hardly mattered as Orioles kept crossing the plate off their cornucopia of singles and doubles.

Asked afterward what he saw from his all-heart hurler on this, his shortest start of the year — three and two-third innings — manager John Gibbons deadpanned: “A lot of hits.”

With their 11-6 loss here, in which the Jays allowed a season-high 19 hits, Toronto has sagged three games back of the American League East-leading Orioles.

The heretofore surging Jays, with a 20-10 record since May 19, can live with booting this series, after winning seven of their previous nine. But they can’t live, and won’t go far, with an imploding Stroman.

“Our guys did a really good job swinging the bats,” Stroman pointed out. “Plenty good enough to win. So it’s extremely frustrating not being able to do my job.’’

He hasn’t been doing it in signature Stroman fashion for a while now: five losses since May 11, and none of his three wins in that stretch have been particularly impressive, though his record doesn’t look bad at 6-3.

Fiercely confident still, because that’s his unshakeable see-no-trouble posture, Stroman has been fulsomely extolled for those half-dozen pitches in his quiver. Certainly yesterday, none of them were working, few of them well-located. Stroman couldn’t find the zone or Russell Martin’s mitt.

“I’ve just lost the feel a little bit,” Stroman said. “When it clicks again, I’ll get rolling. But it’s just been kind of in and out lately, the last few starts. Just kind of, search for it. It’s in there. It’s just a matter of finding it and being way more consistent with it.’’

The potent Oriole lineup can gang up on any pitcher almost at will. And these teams have seen way too much of each other over the past fortnight — with Toronto taking three of four at the Rogers Centre, Baltimore two of three here.

“They have no guys in the lineup that you can take a hitter off,” said Stroman. “You really have to be on your game when you’re facing them. If you’re not, they can expose you and take advantage of you like they did today. Looking forward to getting back out there and getting back against the Orioles at some point soon so I can redeem myself.”

Stroman, who hasn’t looked much like the redoubtable Stroman through most of June — May too actually — was shaky yet again out of the chute.

He gave up back-to-back singles, nudging up to 98 hits on the season before he’d even worked up a sweat. He was up to 100 before the three-run first inning was done. And he was fated to overtake the regrettable lead from Houston’s Dallas Keuchel before the shadows had even begun to lengthen.

Matt Wieters, with a career-high four hits, devoured a 0-1 change-up at the belt buckle, putting the home side up 3-0. It was the seventh homer for Wieters in 2016, three of which have come against Toronto, two off Stroman.

The Jays muscled their way back into the game quickly enough, with a double to the wall by Russell Martin in the second before Troy Tulowitzki — in just his second game back from injury rehab — reached down for a 2-1 change-up from Baltimore starter Chris Tillman. Despite his 9-1 record coming into the game, Tillman didn’t look rock-steady himself. And he had an atrocious record against the Jays: a 5.65 ERA in 21 career outings; and an 0-4 record with an 11.72 ERA in six starts versus Toronto last year.

It was the ninth homer of the season for Tulowitzki.

Two batters later, Devon Travis, playing second instead of Ryan Goins despite the latter having far superior numbers off Tillman, made Gibbons look brilliant. Travis persevered through a foul-filled nine-pitch at-bat, then belted a 2-2 pitch over the wall straightaway, ushering Kevin Pillar across the plate ahead of him. The Jays were up 4-3.

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The lead hardly lasted the blink of an eye.

In the bottom of the second, Pedro Alvarez lashed a single to the left of Travis on the shift, scooted to second on a wild pitch that glanced off Martin’s mitt and scored the tying run on a single by Ryan Flaherty. A three-run fourth cracked the game open for the Orioles, and the two home runs Tillman surrendered had no lingering impact..

Bye-bye Stroman, after a mere 3 2/3 innings, battered for seven runs on 10 hits, including one home run, with two wild pitches tossed into the mix.

Speculating he might be over-analyzing his string of poor outings, Stroman will try not to dwell on this game when he wakes up Monday morning — a much needed day off for the Jays before resuming their labours at home against Arizona Tuesday.

“I’m just gonna try to get away from it for this off-day, just really enjoy it,” Stroman said. “I don’t carry these starts into the next day.’’

Joe Biagini, bringing up the early-innings relief rear, fared no better than Stroman, giving up a run on four hits and managing just one out before he was yanked. Gibbons then rampaged through his bullpen, calling upon Gavin Floyd, Chad Girodo, Jesse Chavez and Drew Storen.

Toronto got two runs back in the seventh, off doubles from Tulowitzki and Travis and a Baltimore error. The Orioles countered with three in the seventh, including a two-run shot from Jonathan Schoop off Chavez.

Bottom line: The hits just kept coming.

In winning the rubber match, the Orioles made out just fine without Manny Machado in the lineup. The much-beloved Machado formally dropped an appeal of his four-game suspension, handed down for charging the mound after being hit in the back by a 99 m.p.h. fastball from Kansas City pitcher Yordano Ventura on June 7.

The suspension also meant Machado’s consecutive streak of 229 games was strangled in baseball’s disciplinary Star Chamber.

It had been the longest active stretch in baseball.

Final word, a reassuring one, from Stroman: “I’ll be fine. I know the type of individual I am. This is a bump in the road and I know I’m going to be stronger from it in the future.”

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