More than a century ago, ‘Shoeless Joe’ roamed Major League Baseball’s diamonds. On Sunday we were introduced to ‘Shoeless Jazz’ and the Yankees are all the better for it.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. scored the club’s first run on a bizarre second-inning play that involved a collision with Baltimore catcher Maverick Handley that left him in stocking feet and carrying his spikes back to the dugout. And there he was in the spotlight again late, the catalyst and executioner in a three-run rally in the bottom of the eighth inning that erased a one-run deficit and sent the Yankees to a 4-2 victory before 45,571 at the Stadium.

Chisholm delivered the clutch two-run double that scored Ben Rice from third and pinch-runner Paul Goldschmidt from first – on a bang-bang slide at the plate – and then scored an insurance run dashing home from third to score when Orioles catcher Gary Sanchez didn’t glove the throw home on DJ LeMahieu’s groundball to shortstop.

The Yankees (45-32) have bounced back from a six-game losing streak by winning three of their last four and now lead the Rays by 2 1/2 games in the AL East.

Asked if the moniker ‘Shoeless Jazz’ now applies after he lost both shoes on the second-inning play, Chisholm replied, “Is that how Shoeless Joe got his name? He ran out of his shoes?”

When told Shoeless Joe Jackson played at the beginning of the 20th century, Chisholm said “Oh, so he wasn’t wearing shoes.’ ”

Baltimore handed a 2-1 lead to set-up man Bryan Baker in the eighth and singles by Ben Rice and Giancarlo Stanton put runners at the corners with one out and set the table for Chisholm’s late heroics. He drove a 3-and-0 fastball off the right-centerfield wall in front of the home bullpen to bring in the tying and go-ahead runs.

“(On) the 3-0 swing, I'm not trying to do too much, just trying to drive in the runner (on third),” Chisholm said. “We're down one run bottom of the eighth (and) you're trying to either go into the top of the ninth tied or winning. So, 3-0 count and he hadn’t thrown me a fastball the whole at-bat.”

Manager Aaron Boone had astutely pinch run Goldschmidt for Stanton and the 37-year-old scored on a slide just under the tag at the plate.

“I didn't know where the ball was . . . and the first time I really saw how close it was going to be was my read of the catcher going for the ball,” Goldschmidt said. “I just tried to get to home as quickly as possible.”

Chisholm, who took third on the throw home, said he was “surprised” to see Goldschmidt score from first but also recounted that, as a Diamondbacks minor leaguer, the organization always used Goldschmidt as the example efficient baserunning overcoming a lack of great speed.

Chisholm broke for the plate on LeMahieu’s ground ball against a drawn-in infield. Shortstop Gunnar Henderson made the play and the throw, but Sanchez – who entered after Handley was injured in the second-inning collision – didn’t handle it. Plate umpire Jansen Visconti initially called Chisholm out and he was about to argue obstruction before teammates pointed to the loose ball and told him to touch home plate.

Of seemingly being in the middle of all the key action in the win, Chisholm said “that’s what I live for, you know?”

The Yankees trailed 2-0 in the second when Chisholm ended up shoeless.

After his two-out double to right field, LeMahieu followed with a single to left. Chisholm rounded third, lost one of his shoes in the stretch toward home and encountered Handley about 25 feet up the baseline where the throw from outfielder Colton Cowser had taken him.

Chisholm and Handley collided at high speed as the catcher gloved the throw and quickly tried to apply the tag. The force knocked the ball loose and Chisholm got to the plate – now shoeless – to score.

“He ran right out of his shoes,” Boone said. “It doesn't surprise me.”

Both players appeared shaken up. Visconti had to remind Chisholm to pick up his spikes as he started to head toward the dugout. Chisholm played on, but Handley was replaced.

“I’ve run out of one (shoe), but not both – never both,” Chisholm said. “I think it’s because I was so sweaty. My socks were wet. It just slipped straight out (of the first shoe). . . . The second shoe came off with the impact I think. . . . I’ve never had someone knock my shoes off . . . It was quite a surprise. I watched it a couple times and laughed at it, too.”

The story is better that way, but replays suggested he lost the second shoe changing directions to dive for the plate.

“Jazz is a spark all the way around,” said starter Will Warren, who got a no-decision after six innings of two-run pitching. “Today we were calling him Barry Sanders with those two collisions at the plate . . . He can do it all. He's so toolsy: he's got the speed, can hit, can field. He can do it all (and) it's nice to have him in our lineup.”