Orioles go wild in the Bronx

NEW YORK - The Orioles are going to the playoffs for the third time in the last five seasons, their bounce-back skills again on full display as they vaulted into the wild card round.

Matt Wieters homered from both sides of the plate for the first time in his career, both two-run shots, and Kevin Gausman pitched into the eighth inning in a 5-2 victory over the Yankees in the Bronx.

Gausman held the Yankees to one run over 7 1/3 innings before turning over the game to Zach Britton, who let an inherited runner score on Didi Gregorius's two-out RBI single. Gausman was charged with two runs, but unlike yesterday, a lead didn't evaporate.

The Jays and Red Sox are tied 1-1 in the eighth. The Orioles don't know where they're playing next, just that they're still active.

Britton struck out Brett Gardner to end it. Players hugged and high-fived. It's going to get loud in the visiting clubhouse.

Wieters is the first Oriole to homer from both sides of the plate since Roberto Alomar on July 25, 1996 against the Indians. He's going back to the playoffs in perhaps his final season with the club, the pending free agent certain to draw serious interest on the market.

He can worry about it later. There's celebrating to do and at least one more game to play.

Wieters hit a two-run homer off rookie Luis Cessa in the fourth inning, his 16th of the season, to give the Orioles a 3-0 lead. The ball landed in the second deck in right field, and Wieters admired its flight for a few steps before breaking into his trot.

Brian McCann led off the bottom of the inning with his 20th home run, but Wieters greeted left-hander Tommy Layne in the sixth by launching a ball inside the left field foul pole with Manny Machado aboard after a single.

The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on Jonathan Schoop's leadoff bloop double down the right field line, Hyun Soo Kim's ground ball and J.J. Hardy's sacrifice fly to left. The rally started after Cessa retired the first six batters with three strikeouts.

Gausman allowed a baserunner in every inning, including back-to-back two-out singles in the third, but he struck out Gary Sanchez to end the threat. He needed only seven pitches to get through the first despite Jacoby Ellsbury's one-out single.

The home run didn't rattle Gausman, who retired 12 of the next 16 batters before Gary Sanchez singled with one out in the eighth. Britton entered the game and allowed a single to McCann, got a called third strike on Tyler Austin and surrendered Gregorius's RBI single. Aaron Hicks grounded to first to strand two runners.

Britton retired the Yankees in order in the ninth.

Gausman has allowed five earned runs over 41 innings this season in his six starts against the Yankees. He now owns a career 1.92 ERA in 17 career games against them.

Showalter hasn't revealed his wild card starter. Chris Tillman is 5-10 with a 5.44 ERA lifetime versus the Blue Jays and Ubaldo Jimenez is 7-5 with a 4.48 ERA. However, Jimenez shut out the Jays on one hit over 6 2/3 innings in his last start at Rogers Centre. Tillman allowed one earned run (two total) in 5 2/3 innings.