Orioles' Trevor Rogers continues remarkable stretch in 1-0 loss to Cubs

Matt Weyrich, The Baltimore Sun on Aug 1, 2025

Published in Baseball

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CHICAGO — Not even the most prolific lineup in baseball has answers for Trevor Rogers right now.

The Orioles left-hander pitched an eight-inning complete game against the Chicago Cubs on Friday, missing out on the chance to go nine frames only because his offense didn’t provide any run support in a 1-0 loss.

Rogers is the first Orioles pitcher to be handed the tough-luck loss in a complete game since Chris Tillman in 2013.

“Just a good mix overall,” Rogers said after the game. “My execution was really good today. Tip my cap to [catcher] Adley [Rutschman]. We had a solid game plan going into it. He was constantly mixing and, whatever I was thinking, he was calling. So, we were pretty much on the same page all day.”

Pitching in the Orioles’ first game after the MLB trade deadline, Rogers held the Cubs — the highest-scoring offense in the league this season — to one run on four hits with eight strikeouts and no walks. The lone run of the contest was scored on a sacrifice fly by left fielder Ian Happ in the second.

The Orioles threatened to extend the game with two outs in the ninth when Rutschman doubled and Tyler O’Neill hit a fly ball to deep left field, but Happ closed his glove around it to end the game.

“He was going back out in the ninth,” interim manager Tony Mansolino said of Rogers. “I’m not so sure he’s coming out of that game with those two righties right there. So, he threw the ball great. The change-up was good, the slider was good, the location, the fastball had some life to it. That’s a playoff-caliber lineup right there. There’s a lot of right-handed hitters in it. He was incredible.”

Rogers dropped his ERA to 1.44, the second lowest of any MLB pitcher with at least eight starts since May 24 — the day he made his season debut — behind only National League Cy Young Award favorite Paul Skenes (1.26).

“I thought he threw all of his pitches today in different counts, ahead and behind,” Rutschman said. “He gave batters a lot of different looks. I thought he did a great job today. I was really impressed. That was my first time catching him this year. It was fun to have that synergy just come back and get back into it.”

The outing also came on the one-year anniversary of Rogers’ first outing in an Orioles’ uniform, which was the start of a disastrous stint that ultimately forced Baltimore to option him to Triple-A Norfolk for the rest of the season after only four starts.

“Complete 360 [turnaround]. Went from trying to do too much and trying to produce results for this team and coming all the way around to just focusing on execution and doing my job and we’re getting good results,” Rogers said. “Very thankful for the Orioles and I’ve had a blast here, but still got a job to do for the next two months and I’ll continue to do that.”