BALTIMORE — The Yankees lineup was mostly a no-show again Tuesday night.
Luckily for them, Trent Grisham didn’t get the memo.
The center fielder was a one-man offense in a 3-1 win, as he drove in all three runs with a solo homer and had a two-run single.
The rest of the Aaron Judge/Cody Bellinger-less batting order disappointed once again and nearly spoiled another solid outing by the pitching staff.
Grisham homered in the third. And when the Yankees loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, after pinch hitter Amed Rosario struck out, Grisham came through with a base hit to center to put the Yankees up for good.
Carlos Rodón, on a pitch count in his return from an IL stint due to elbow inflammation, pitched well for four innings in his first start since June 28.
The lefty gave up just one run in four innings before being pulled after 66 pitches.
Five relievers combined for five scoreless innings, as the Yankees won their second straight after dropping three in a row.
Rodón’s lone mistake came with two outs in the third, when Coby Mayo took him deep to left field to tie the game at 1-1.
At that point, the Yankees lineup was about as productive as it’s been since Judge went down with a fractured rib.
Against right-hander Shane Baz, six of the first seven Yankees hitters whiffed and they didn’t get a hit until Grisham hit his 17th homer of the season with two outs in the top of the third to give them a brief 1-0 lead.
By the time Baz left with two on and one out in the seventh, he’d struck out a season-high 10 batters.
The Yankees threatened in the fifth, as George Lombard Jr. singled through the right side of the infield with one out and Ryan McMahon walked.
But with runners on first and second, Austin Wells popped out and Grisham flied to left to keep the game tied.
Rodón did well to keep the Orioles to just the one run in his outing, as he wasn’t helped by Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the second.
He walked Christian Encarnacion-Strand with one out before Leodys Taveras singled to center.
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Rodón then got Christian Franklin to hit a seemingly routine ground ball toward Chisholm at second.
But second base umpire Ryan Additon appeared to block Chisholm’s view of the ball momentarily and the second baseman couldn’t handle the grounder.
Instead of a potential inning-ending double play, everyone was safe.
With the bases loaded, Chisholm was visibly upset with Additon, complaining that he didn’t get out of the way in time.
No one else argued with Additon about the play and Rodón made it a moot point by stranding all three runners with a strikeout of ex-Yankees prospect Carlos Narváez and then Jackson Holliday, preserving a one-run lead.
It disappeared with Mayo’s homer an inning later.
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The Yankees got Baz out of the game in the seventh thanks to a leadoff single by Spencer Jones and a one-out hit from Lombard.
Pinch hitter Paul Goldschmidt walked against lefty Josh Walker before Rosario — hitting for Wells — struck out.
Grisham then gave the Yankees the lead, which held up even after Brent Headrick allowed the first two batters to reach in the seventh.
The lefty retired the next two batters before Fernando Cruz entered and got Pete Alonso on a liner to right to end the threat.
