Orioles salvage doubleheader split behind dominant Trevor Rogers, win 2-1 in nightcap

You know what’s great about baseball? On any given night, any team — even the sorriest of teams like the 2025 Orioles — can pull a rabbit out of their hat and somehow win a game they had no business winning. The kind of game where the unlikeliest of contributors suddenly step up big, where the team prevails when the odds were severely against them.

I’d say tonight’s nightcap of the split doubleheader certainly qualifies. The Orioles were using a starting pitcher, Trevor Rogers, who had a 7.11 ERA in his O’s career and 8.10 in Triple-A this year — and he proceeded to pitch one of his most dominant games in years, blanking the Red Sox over 6.1 innings. Consider also that the Orioles, after…