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BALTIMORE — Carlos Rodón has demonstrated all season that he is no longer a two-pitch pitcher, but he put an exclamation point on that case Saturday.
Nearing the end of what has been his best year in pinstripes, Rodón leaned on an especially sharp changeup to cruise through seven strong innings in the Yankees’ 6-1 win over the Orioles .
For the first time since 2018, neither the four-seam fastball nor the slider was Rodón’s most-used pitch.
Instead it was his changeup, which he threw 32 times (out of 96 pitches) to generate 12 swings-and-misses, including three of his eight strikeouts.
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