Aug 15, 2025, 10:54 PM ET<\/p>\n
HOUSTON — Baltimore rookie right-hander Brandon Young<\/a> lost his bid for the first perfect game in Orioles history with four outs remaining Friday night in a 7-0 win over the Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n Young retired the first 23 batters he faced, only to have his shot at history end on slow grounder to the third base side by Houston second baseman Ramon Ur\u00ecas.<\/p>\n With two outs in the eighth inning, Ur\u00ecas, facing the Orioles for the first time since being traded last month, hit a 56 mph grounder between the mound and third base line. Young fielded the ball, but his off-balanced throw sailed wide of first base. Ur\u00edas was awarded an infield single.<\/p>\n Young struck out the next batter to end the eighth. His eight innings pitched were a career high, and he matched his career best with six strikeouts<\/p>\n A native of Lumberton, Texas, less than 100 miles northeast of Houston, Young entered the game 0-6 with a 6.70 ERA through the first 10 starts of his big league career.<\/p>\n Yaramil Hiraldo<\/a> retired the side in order in the ninth to preserve the Orioles first one-hitter since May 24, 2024.<\/p>\n Astros starter Framber Valdez<\/a> (11-6) kept the Orioles in check until the fourth when Colby Mayo hit a two-out, solo home run.<\/p>\n Baltimore added to the lead in the fifth after loading the bases. With one-out, Gunnar Henderson<\/a> drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, and a second run scored on the play when J\u00e9sus S\u00e1nchez’s throw got past catcher Yainer Diaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n After Henderson brought home a run in seventh, Dylan Carlson<\/a> capped a three-run eighth inning with a two-run homer to give the Orioles a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n Valdez allowed four runs, three earned, on nine hits over 6 2\/3 innings as the Astros’ lead over Seattle in the AL West slipped to a half-game.<\/p>\n Key moment Urias’ infield single with two outs in the eighth inning to break up Young’s bid for a perfect game.<\/p>\n Key stat John Means<\/a> threw the Orioles last no-hitter on May 5, 2021.<\/p>\n Up next Houston RHP Jason Alexander<\/a> (3-1, 5.02 ERA) opposes LHP Cade Povich<\/a> (2-6, 4.95) Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 15, 2025, 10:54 PM ET HOUSTON — Baltimore rookie right-hander Brandon Young lost his bid for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-71768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}