Rogers shuts down Yankees as Orioles win 4-2; Chisholm joins 30-30 club

BALTIMORE — Trevor Rogers shut down the Yankees as the Orioles beat New York 4-2 Friday night at Camden Yards, a result that further narrows New York’s path to a postseason berth. The loss leaves the Yankees three games behind the Blue Jays in the AL East with eight games remaining, Toronto holding the tiebreaker. New York also remained the top AL wild-card team, two games ahead of Seattle and at least two games clear of Boston, depending on later results around the league.

Rogers entered the evening with a 1.43 ERA across 16 starts, and he limited the Yankees to a single hit through six innings—their best chance coming when Austin Wells led off the sixth with a single. The Orioles then withstood a pair of late Yankee threats as Baltimore’s defense flashed highlights to keep New York off the scoreboard until the seventh.

Baltimore finally pushed across a run in the bottom of the sixth, aided by two misplays by New York. Westburg’s broken-bat comebacker deflected through Will Warren’s legs for an error, putting a runner aboard. Henderson followed with a high chopper to second that Chisholm charged and attempted to flip to first, but the transfer was mishandled and the ball got away, allowing two runs to score and giving the Orioles a 3-0 lead. The inning ended with Baltimore still in front, and New York could not muster a response against Rogers or the bullpen.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. broke through in the seventh with a two-run homer, his 30th of the season, pulling the Yankees within a run and making him the third player in franchise history to reach 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season. He joined Alfonso Soriano (2002, 2003) and Bobby Bonds (1975) in that exclusive club. The blast energized the visitors briefly, but Baltimore answered in the bottom of the inning when Henderson lined an RBI double off Tim Hill to stretch the margin back to two.

The Yankees mounted another threat in the top of the eighth, placing runners on first and second with one out, but Rico Garcia induced groundouts by Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton to quell the rally. Will Warren, who had endured a rough outing in his last start, steadied and worked 5 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on the night (one earned). The lone earned run came in the second inning on Ryan Mountcastle’s 422-foot homer, a stat line that summarized a night when New York’s offense never fully broke through against Rogers and the Orioles’ defense.

With eight games remaining, the Yankees still held the top wild-card seed but faced a stubborn gap to the front of the division. The Blue Jays’ result earlier in the evening—against Kansas City—meant New York had little room for error in this stretch drive, and the head-to-head tiebreaker with Toronto loomed large as the season's final weeks unfolded.