BALTIMORE — The excellent news for the Yankees is that they won’t need to see Trevor Rogers in October.
The unhealthy information is that the Orioles left-hander robbed them of an opportunity to choose up one other recreation on the Blue Jays of their dimming hopes of claiming the division.
The Yankees mustered only one hit in six innings in opposition to Rogers, after which got here up simply quick of their comeback makes an attempt in opposition to the Orioles’ bullpen, falling 4-2 on Friday evening at Camden Yards.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. crushed a two-run shot within the seventh inning to tug the Yankees inside 3-2, coming into him into the 30/30 membership, however it was not sufficient as a pair of defensive errors doomed them within the backside of the sixth, resulting in a pair of runs that have been the distinction.
On an evening when the Blue Jays have been getting blown out by the Royals, the Yankees (86-68) have been set to stay three video games again within the AL East with eight video games to play (with Toronto proudly owning the tiebreaker).
They nonetheless owned the highest AL wild-card spot, main the loser of the late Mariners-Astros recreation by two video games and the Red Sox by no less than two video games, pending the results of their recreation in opposition to the Rays.
Rogers got here into the evening with a 1.43 ERA throughout 16 begins for the Orioles (73-81), having given up simply 66 hits in 100 ²/₃ innings, posing a stiff problem even in opposition to a lineup that has hit left-handers nicely this season.
The Yankees lastly recorded their first hit off Rogers when Austin Wells led off the sixth inning with a single.
But left fielder Dylan Beavers robbed them of an opportunity to document their first run with a pair of terrific catches on back-to-back performs.
First he ran again and made a leaping seize into the wall to remove no less than additional bases from Paul Goldschmidt.
Then he got here in to make a diving snag on Aaron Judge’s sinking liner.
The Orioles then added to their 1-0 lead within the backside of the inning when the Yankees’ protection failed them.
Jordan Westburg led off with a broken-bat comebacker to the mound, with a shard of his bat hitting off the bouncing ball and showing to change its spin, which allowed it to get by Will Warren’s legs for an error.
Gunnar Henderson got here up subsequent and hit a excessive chopper to second base, which Chisholm charged, fielded and tried to flip to first straight out of his glove as a result of he doubtless didn’t have sufficient time to switch the ball to his throwing hand.
But the flip was wild, getting previous Goldschmidt and placing runners on second and third.
Both of these runs finally got here in to attain, one on a sacrifice fly and one other on a fielder’s selection off Fernando Cruz to make it a 3-0 recreation.
Chisholm gave the Yankees some life within the high of the seventh together with his two-run homer, becoming a member of Alfonso Soriano (2002, 2003) and Bobby Bonds (1975) as the one three gamers in franchise historical past to hit no less than 30 house runs and steal 30 bases in a single season.
But the Orioles bought a run again within the backside of the inning when Henderson hit an RBI double off Tim Hill.
The Yankees threatened once more within the high of the eighth, placing runners on first and second with one out.
But Rico Garcia (who pitched one recreation with the Yankees in July) bought Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton to each floor out, squashing the rally.
Warren was coming off a tough outing in opposition to the Red Sox final Sunday through which he bought tagged for six runs within the first inning.
But the younger right-hander bounced again respectably, giving up three runs (one earned) throughout 5 ¹/₃ innings.
The solely earned run got here within the second inning, when Ryan Mountcastle took him deep for a 422-foot house run.
