BALTIMORE — The excellent news for the Yankees is that they won't need to see Trevor Rogers in October.
The dangerous information is that the Orioles left-hander robbed them of an opportunity to select up one other sport 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 brief of their comeback makes an attempt in opposition to the Orioles' bullpen, falling 4-2 on Friday night time at Camden Yards.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. crushed a two-run shot within the seventh inning to tug the Yankees inside 3-2, getting into him into the 30/30 membership, nevertheless 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 had been the distinction.
On an evening when the Blue Jays had been getting blown out by the Royals, the Yankees (86-68) couldn't take benefit and 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 sport by two video games and the Crimson Sox by at the very least two video games, pending the results of their sport in opposition to the Rays.
Rogers got here into the night time 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 properly this season.
The Yankees lastly recorded their first hit off Rogers when Austin Wells led off the sixth inning with a single.
However left fielder Dylan Beavers robbed them of an opportunity to file 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 at the very least further bases from Paul Goldschmidt.
Then he got here in to make a diving snag on Aaron Decide'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 via 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.
However the flip was wild, getting previous Goldschmidt and placing runners on second and third.
Each of these runs ultimately got here in to attain, one on a sacrifice fly and one other on a fielder's alternative off Fernando Cruz to make it a 3-0 sport.
Chisholm gave the Yankees some life within the high of the seventh along 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 at the very least 30 house runs and steal 30 bases in a single season.
However the Orioles acquired 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.
However Rico Garcia (who pitched one sport with the Yankees in July) acquired Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton to each floor out, squashing the rally.
Warren was coming off a tough outing in opposition to the Crimson Sox final Sunday through which he acquired tagged for six runs within the first inning.
However the younger right-hander bounced again respectably, giving up three runs (one earned) throughout 5 ¹/₃ innings.
The one earned run got here within the second inning, when Ryan Mountcastle took him deep for a 422-foot house run.
