BALTIMORE — The good news for the Yankees is that they will not have to see Trevor Rogers in October. 

The bad news is that the Orioles left-hander robbed them of a chance to pick up another game on the Blue Jays in their dimming hopes of claiming the division. 

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The Yankees mustered just one hit in six innings against Rogers, and then came up just short in their comeback attempts against the Orioles’ bullpen, falling 4-2 on Friday night at Camden Yards. 

Jazz Chisholm Jr. crushed a two-run shot in the seventh inning to pull the Yankees within 3-2, entering him into the 30-30 club, but it was not enough after a pair of errors doomed them in the bottom of the sixth, leading to two runs that were the difference. 

“It’s kind of upsetting not to get the ‘W’ tonight and come closer to the Blue Jays to win the pennant,” Chisholm said. “That’s all we’re thinking about right now is winning the division. This is a tough loss today.” 

On a night when the Blue Jays got blown out by the Royals, the Yankees (86-68) remained three games back in the AL East with eight to play (Toronto owns the tiebreaker). They still hold the top AL wild-card spot, leading the Astros and Red Sox by two games apiece. 

“It’s never good when we lose, especially at the point in the season we’re at right now,” said Will Warren, who gave up three runs (one earned) across 5 ¹/₃ innings. 

Rogers came into the night with a 1.43 ERA across 16 starts for the Orioles (73-81), having given up just 66 hits in 100 ²/₃ innings, posing a stiff challenge even against a lineup that has hit left-handers well this season. 

The Yankees finally 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 a chance to record their first run with a pair of terrific catches on back-to-back plays. First, he ran back and made a leaping grab into the wall to take away at least extra bases from Paul Goldschmidt. Then he came in to make a diving snag on Aaron Judge’s sinking liner. 

The Orioles then added to their 1-0 lead in the bottom of the inning when the Yankees’ defense 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 appearing to alter its spin as it went right through Warren’s legs. 

“That’s probably the worst play I’ve ever made in my life,” Warren said. “A bit embarrassing and it led to a run, so that was disappointing.” 

Gunnar Henderson came up next and hit a high chopper to second base, which Chisholm charged, fielded and tried to flip to first straight out of his glove because he likely did not have enough time to transfer the ball to his throwing hand. But the flip was wild, getting past Goldschmidt and putting runners on second and third. 

“He needed to nail it right away and I think he kind of had to snatch it a little bit a second time,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Once he double-clutched or double-hitched, then he probably didn’t have a play and it would have been better just to eat it.” 

Both of those runners eventually came in to score, one on a sacrifice fly and another on a fielder’s choice off Fernando Cruz to make it a 3-0 game. 

After Chisholm gave the Yankees some life in the top of the seventh with his two-run homer — joining Alfonso Soriano (2002, 2003) and Bobby Bonds (1975) as the only three players in franchise history to hit at least 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in a single season — the Orioles got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Henderson hit an RBI double off Tim Hill. 

The Yankees threatened again in the top of the eighth, putting runners on first and second with one out. But Rico Garcia (who pitched one game with the Yankees in July) got Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton to both ground out, squashing the rally. 

“Every time you lose, it sucks, and every time you win, it feels good,” Boone said. “We’re working to shake hands and put ourselves in the best possible position heading down the stretch here. This is a tough one tonight, obviously. We got a good outing from Rogers against us to hold us down and weren’t able to mount enough. But it’s on to the next one. [Saturday] becomes super important, too.”