After being no-hit for eight and six innings this season, the Orioles wanted to see how the better half lived.

Kyle Bradish faced the minimum number of batters until Jazz Chisholm Jr. doubled with one out in the fifth, Adley Rutschman drove in three runs, and the Orioles claimed the series with a 7-0 victory over the Yankees before an announced crowd of 14,521 at Camden Yards.

The Orioles rebounded from the four-game sweep in the Bronx and are 20-24 heading into the off-day.

The time change due to an approaching storm didn’t disrupt Bradish, who shut out the Yankees on one hit over six innings and lowered his ERA to 4.21. He walked three batters and struck out seven to give him 17 in his last two starts.

Bradish issued an eight-pitch leadoff walk in the first, got a double play and kept cruising with 12 batters in a row retired.

“I mean, he’s such a good pitcher and I think just today, him going out doing his thing,” Rutschman said. “The guy continues to work. Not the start he wanted, but the guy just continues to get better and learn and, the guy works and it’s fun to watch, fun to catch and looked amazing today.”

Coby Mayo was the designated hitter today and he gave the Orioles a 1-0 lead in the second with a two-out double down the left field line at 111.1 mph that scored Leody Taveras.

Blaze Alexander led off the third inning with a bunt single and raced to second base on Ryan McMahon’s throwing error. Taylor Ward drew his 42nd walk, the runners moved up on Gunnar Henderson’s grounder, and Alexander scored on Rutschman’s sacrifice fly.

The lead grew to 3-0 on Pete Alonso’s single down the right field line. Alonso got caught in a rundown. And it became 5-0 in the fifth on Rutschman’s towering two-run homer to right off Paul Blackburn, with a 37-degree launch angle, after Alexander’s leadoff single.

“I was definitely not pimping it,” Rutschman said. “I got it OK. You don’t know. Got enough of it. That’s what matters.”

Alexander batted in the sixth with the bases loaded and one out – Mayo and Weston Wilson singled off Ryan Yarbrough – and his two-run single made it 7-0.

Alexander has a pair of three-hit games this month and both are against the Yankees.

“We have the ability to be a diverse offense, and we’ve shown that,” said manager Craig Albernaz. “Like, Adley got into a ball for a home run. But we have guys that can bunt, we have guys that can hit the ball the other way, we have guys that are capable of situational hitting, and we’ve shown the ability to walk and manage the at-bat. So it’s kind of all of us putting it together when the situation calls for it, and that’s what happened today.”

Left-hander Max Fried was removed after the third at only 61 pitches. He allowed three runs and five hits.

Fried came out of the game due to left elbow posterior soreness and will undergo imaging on Thursday.

The Orioles had scored three runs or fewer in their last six games before today.

The Yankees have lost five of their last six games and now must wonder how long they’ve lost Fried.

“For us as a squad, just to be able to battle and today just tack on runs and have Bradish go out there and shove, do his thing, just a really good team win today,” Rutschman said. “I think for us it’s just a day-by-day mentality and so it feels good to win the series and on to the next.”

What’s making Bradish better?

Albernaz mentioned pregame that Bradish came up with a slight adjustment in his delivery prior to the last outing, still working from the stretch but lowering his leg kick to make it “a little quicker and shorter.”

The goal is to increase the chances of a longer start. Bradish allowed three runs in seven innings and struck out 10 against the Athletics and turned in another quality outing today.

“That time pressure kind of organized his body a little more efficiently to get down the slope a little faster,” Albernaz said. “We saw that with the strike quality and his pitch quality, as well.

“I think we all know that K.B. has four elite pitches and his calling card is being able to be relentless in the strike zone, force weak contact and the ability to punch guys out.”

The Yankees put two runners on base with two outs in the fifth and Bradish struck out Anthony Volpe with the count full. Five of the seven strikeouts came from the curveball, a pitch that generated a career-high nine whiffs in his previous start.

Bradish finished with eight today, proving again that it’s become a real weapon.

“I think early on in the year, we got away from it just because the slider has just been historically so good for me, and it’s tough not to throw it, but I think they both work well off of each other,” Bradish said. “These past two starts, just upping the usage, it’s been really good right now. So, keeping it there, and being able to throw those two breaking balls is very important for me.”

“It’s becoming a real equalizer,” Albernaz said. “That’s something that has performed well throughout his career, and this year, the usage hasn’t been as high to start the year, and he’s starting to lean into it now.”

Shooting for the shutout

The Orioles hadn’t blanked a team until today, and it seemed pretty important.

Keegan Akin, former opener, retired the side in order in the seventh. Left-hander Dietrich Enns recovered from a leadoff walk by getting a popup and double play on a line drive to Gunnar Henderson.

Rico Garcia was warming as if ready to hop from high to low leverage. Like, really low. The Orioles led by seven runs.

That’s more of a skip.

Yennier Cano got the call in the ninth after Enns escaped the mini jam and registered his eighth scoreless appearance in a row and 16th out of 17. He stranded a runner on third base after a leadoff walk.

“Obviously, the shutout, first one, that’s awesome on the pitching side,” Albernaz said. “Rutsch did a great job behind the plate, especially catching three in a row and going day after night. Yeah, I think that’s what we’re capable of. We’ve shown it. We’ve shown we can play a game like this. So, for our guys, it’s just anchoring to it, being consistent with it and being diligent with our work.”

Wells weighs in on being optioned

Tyler Wells should be praised for avoiding an injury that knocked him out of the bullpen. He was optioned May 2 because the Orioles needed a fresh reliever and he didn’t require going through the waiver process.

“You know it’s a business, it’s all part of it,” Wells said this morning, a day after the Orioles recalled him. “It was definitely unexpected, but at the same time, too, just trying to kind of focus on my mental process and making sure that everything kind of stayed the same while I was down. Basically make it as smooth as possible whenever I did come back.”

Wells didn’t pitch for Triple-A Norfolk until May 8 and it was his lone appearance.

“I did throw once and I think it went really, really well, but I think during that time my assumption – this is a complete assumption here – is like, I had thrown quite a bit of innings out of the bullpen recently, so they were just giving me a little bit of time to get some rest while we had the opportunity. It was like a perfect deload to kind of get ready for the rest of the season.

“They just made sure that I got everything I needed. Got down to Norfolk on Tuesday and give me a little bit of time to kind of work back into it.”

Wells was handed the ninth inning last night in his return and he worked around a single and two walks.

“I’m very happy with where my stuff’s at,” he said. “Even though I had two walks and people know how I feel about walks around here, I think that there were a lot of really good things to kind of take out of it. And just being able to go out there and put up a zero, from the previous 48 hours that I had, it was definitely good and definitely take it.”

Beavers update

Albernaz said Dylan Beavers has a “low-grade” oblique strain on his right side. Beavers went on the 10-day injured list today.

“He’s feeling good, relatively speaking,” Albernaz said. “It’s not like one of those ones where when you walk around you’re wincing. He’s moving around fine. Again, I don’t like timelines, so kind of encouraged with how he’s feeling today.”