Orioles take series vs. Yankees with 7-0 rout behind Bradish, Rutschman

Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun on May 13, 2026

Published in Baseball

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BALTIMORE — There wasn’t much for the Orioles to build on heading into Wednesday’s rubber match, the way their first six games against the Yankees went. New York had led in 51 of the 54 innings played between the clubs this season, including all nine of Tuesday night’s rout. The Orioles had no answers for the Yankees’ rotation, and several games turned into laughers.

After all that, the Orioles won a series.

Kyle Bradish fired six scoreless innings, Adley Rutschman hit his sixth home run of the season and Blaze Alexander collected three hits to lead a 7-0 rout over the Yankees for Baltimore’s first shutout win of the season. The Orioles (20-24) took two of three from New York just over a week after the Yankees swept their four-game series in the Bronx.

Baltimore caught a break when Yankee starter Max Fried left the game after the third inning because of left elbow posterior soreness, but the lineup had already scraped a few runs across by playing some small ball. After Coby Mayo’s RBI double off Fried in the second, the Orioles plated two in a third inning that included a bunt single, an error, a groundout to move a runner, a sacrifice fly and an RBI single.

That was more than enough run support for Bradish, who ramped up his curveball usage for the second straight outing and turned in his second straight quality start as a result. The right-hander, who was tagged for five runs in four innings by the Yankees on May 2 to raise his ERA to 5.02, has struck out 17 batters with three runs allowed over his past 13 innings. He’s thrown his curveball over 30% of the time, and opponents have just one hit off it.

The Orioles continued to add on and earn their most lopsided win since beating the Houston Astros, 10-3, in the first leg of their doubleheader April 30. Rutschman took Yankees right-hander Paul Blackburn deep for a two-run homer in the fifth, lifting a high flyball to right-center field that bounced off the top of the wall and over.

Alexander then came to the plate in the sixth with the bases loaded and brought two runs home on a single to left. The utility player has come alive in the month of May after a rough April, going 11 for 28 (.393) with a triple and four RBIs in 11 games.

Keegan Akin, Dietrich Enns and Yennier Cano each pitched scoreless frames in relief to preserve the shutout and a one-hitter. The Orioles had been the only team in MLB not to pitch a shutout this season.