{"id":73290,"date":"2025-08-16T04:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:37:13","slug":"orioles-right-hander-young-loses-bid-for-perfect-game-in-win-over-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73290\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles right-hander Young loses bid for perfect game in win over Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Baltimore rookie right-hander Brandon Young lost his bid for the first perfect game in Orioles history with four outs remaining Friday night in a 7-0 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/houston-astros\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"houston-astros\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>Yaramil Hiraldo retired the side in order in the ninth to preserve the Orioles first one-hitter since May 24, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Astros starter Framber Valdez (11-6) kept the Orioles in check until the fourth when Colby Mayo hit a two-out, solo home run.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore added to the lead in the fifth after loading the bases. With one-out, Gunnar Henderson drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, and a second run scored on the play when J\u00e9sus S\u00e1nchez\u2019s throw got past catcher Yainer Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>After Henderson brought home a run in seventh, Dylan Carlson capped a three-run eighth inning with a two-run homer to give the Orioles a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez allowed four runs, three earned, on nine hits over 6 2\/3 innings as the Astros&#8217; lead over Seattle in the AL West slipped to a half-game.<\/p>\n<p>Urias\u2019 infield single with two outs in the eighth inning to break up Young\u2019s bid for a perfect game.<\/p>\n<p>John Means threw the Orioles last no-hitter on May 5, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Houston RHP Jason Alexander (3-1, 5.02 ERA) opposes LHP Cade Povich (2-6, 4.95) Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Baltimore rookie right-hander Brandon Young lost his bid for the first perfect game in Orioles history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-73290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}