Orioles vs. Astros Game Recap (8/15/25) | MLB Highlights | Baltimore Orioles

Orioles vs. Astros Game Recap (8/15/25) | MLB Highlights | Baltimore Orioles

for the Houston Astros will open up a weekend series hosting the first of three against the Baltimore Orioles. The Astros the first place team in the AL West. The last time the Orioles faced that team that was in first place tied for first place the Seattle Mariners, they left Baltimore a game and a half out. Orioles are hoping to play spoilers down the stretch. It’s also players weekend, a chance for players to showcase their passions, their inspirations. They can get creative with their bats as you can see and their cleats as well. Now pitching back to back after that day off as Far From continues out onto the mound ready to go for the Astros in 23 starts. A 2.97 erra. He has got 16 quality starts in those 23 appearances. Jackson Holiday will lead things off for Baltimore. Gets this one on the ground. Duban long throw and makes it. boy made that play look a lot easier than it was as Mauricio Dubon having to range to his right comes up throwing and there’s one away. Here’s Jordan Westber. Westber, the native of New Bron Falls, 65 hitter. And Jordan loops this one into right field. A charging Cam Smith will see it drop in front of him for base hit. Make it four for seven. Westber against Valdez. And he’s the game’s inaugural base runner. And for me, that’s what the Orioles approach has to be right there is using gap to gap against Valdez. Here’s Adley Rushman. Rushman, the switchhitting catcher. Rutman diving stop. Kareah to his feet. And what a play. Excellent play by Carlos Kareah at third, diving to his left and taking a hit away from Rutman and a run away from the Orioles. Brandon Young making his 11th big league start. Last time out was probably the worst of his 10 start so far. Gave up six runs against the A’s. It was his shortest outing, two as an Orio. Only three innings of work. There’s the numbers on the year. 0 and6. And Jose Altuve, a familiar leadoff hitter for Houston team. That’s 16th in the majors at 4.3 runs per game. And a first pitch swing for Jos Altuve. Soarses into right center field for Jeremiah Jackson making his Houston debut. Here’s Carlos Koreah. Carlos had the day off on Wednesday. And a brown ball to third. Nicely picked on the short hop. Westber throws out his counterpart for out number two. So two out, nobody on for Jesus Sanchez. Left-handed hitting left fielder. Young peers in the count’s two and two. The next offering, soft ground ball swept out to first, fielded by Mayo who circles, runs to the bag, gets the force out and it’s a one, two, three inning for Brandon Young. One and one to Mount Castle. Batting 246, 283 on base percentage. Mount Castle pops it up along the first base side foul ground. Walker over and he makes the catch. A step from the dugout rail. One away. Had a measure the whole way. He knew he was going to have to chop those steps at the end to slow down. Two out, nobody on for Jeremiah Jackson. right-handed hitting right fielder for Baltimore. And he tags this ball into center field. That’s a rocket from Jackson. A two out torch shot in front of Taylor Tra. Boy, and that’s the ball that we’re talking about that the Orioles need to attack right there. The ball that is left accidentally up in the zone. Dylan Carlson playing left field. Switch hitter. That one. A little half swing by Carlson is scooped into right center field for a hit that sends Jackson to third. Dylan Carlson on the hard change up lifts one the other way and the Orioles have two two out hits. Yeah, and love that approach right there. Jeremiah Jackson right back up the middle with his base hit. This ball to the back side of the field right here and that’s what you have to do. Left-handed hitting center fielder Daniel Johnson grounded sharply but right out of Reus goes down to one knee to field it. Throws to first side retired. So Frober works around a couple of two out singles and after one and a half, Astros nothing, Orioles nothing. One away here in the second inning. And so far Brandon Young has retiled all four that he has seen. Spinny curveball from Brandon Young and it’s the second out here in the second inning and his first strikeout. Six up, six down for Brandon Young and we’re through two innings. And what a nice start it’s been for Brandon Young. That’s now seven up and seven down. Three outs have been recorded on the ground. Swinging a miss. Back-to-back strikeouts for Brandon Young. And he’s twirling a gym for the right-hander from Texas. Well, Kobe Mayo, he struck out his first at bat. Bats with two outs here in the fourth inning. Mayo blasts this one toward the Crawford boxes and gone in a heartbeat. Kobe Mayo shoots one out of here. Kobe Mayo in his first visit to the Crawford boxes gives the Orioles the lead to kick off the weekend. Yeah, Brandon Young faces Jose Altuve. Try to protect that lead against the top of the Astros order. Reaches out, finds his balance, and throws out Altuve over at first base. And how about Brandon Young? A dozen up, a dozen down. Four scoreless, perfect innings from the 26-year-old right-hander. We go to the fifth. Going to bring up Daniel Johnson. He’s 0 for one. Grounded out with a couple of runners on the first scoring opportunity for the Orioles. That was in the second inning. Off of Valdez. It deflects back to Diaz. And Daniel Johnson is safe at first. Well, one out base runner and now to the top of the order and Jackson Holiday. Holiday to the left side. That one sneaks past Dubon. Johnson races his way to third and Sanchez has a late throw. Boy, Daniel Johnson crushed the ball back to Valdez and then showed off his zippy speed getting first to third. Holiday with a ground ball hit and the Orioles have him at the corners. So, four miss from Valdez. That means the bases are loaded now with one out and guy who has been the Orioles best hitter in Gunner Henderson stepping up to the plate. Fast ball popped him up left field. Sanchez is there from shallow left. Johnson can really run. Sanchez’s throw is not going to be in time and it kicks away. Here comes Holiday dashing in from second to score. The Orioles played two on the play. A sacrifice fly from Henderson scores. Johnson and Jackson Holiday. Read the air and throw brilliantly for Brandon Young. Five innings, 45 pitches thrown. He’s going to look at four through six in the Houston order. 13 up and 13 down for Brandon Young tonight. Raone Urias flying out to center field back in the second inning. Swing and a miss through a split. Rushman picks it. Tag applied. Brandon Young just keeps on dealing. Benching in front of family and friends. He is through five innings where he has been perfect so far. Brandon Young makes it 16 in a row retired, fields his own position and continues to author his best start in the major leagues. Another dazzling frame turned in by Brandon Young. Perfect work now through six frames in Houston tonight. The Astros have sent 18 to the plate and BY has set 18. Back to the dugout. Jordan Westber one for two. He’s reached base twice tonight. Center field, Jordan Westber base hit. And the Orioles have had a hit in six of the seven innings against Valdez. Eight total. Two out base runner for Gunnar Henderson. Inside that gets away from Diaz. Kicked off the backboard and the throw was not caught at second. Nearly some pinball wizardry for Yer Diaz, but Westber takes second on the pitch that got away to the left side. Through the left side. What do you know? Gunnar Henderson delivers again with a runner in scoring position. He is an absolute machine with runners in scoring position. Gunnar Henderson hitting close to 400 now on the year with runners in score position. An errant throw by Frobert Valdez who has absolutely not had it tonight. He has struggled with his command. The Orioles have executed hitting him hard and hitting him often. And now they blade one in and make it four nothing. And they knock out the lefty from this ball game. We’ve all been in awe of Brandon Young tonight. 18 up, 18 down. Six perfect innings for Young who gets a ground ball to third from Jose Altuve. Another first pitch out. Young has now gone six and a third perfect innings. He’s the last Orio rookie or the first oral rookie to do so since we Chen went six and a third in Seattle 13 years ago. Young covers the bag at first to get the out. What a play. It’s getting real now and it’s getting real fun. 21 up, 21 down by Brandon Young tonight in Houston, Texas. Orioles have a four nothing lead as we go to the eighth and bring back Jeff Arnold. Ryan Mount Castle crushes this one out to deep right center field. Trl chasing that’s going to hit off the bottom part of the wall. Trel plays it, fires into the cut off man, but Mount Castle makes it into second to slide. Ryan Mount Castle Mayo shoots one to the right side and that moves Mount Castle to third. Here’s Jeremiah Jackson one for three. Struck out in the sixth inning. Dub could use one of those right now. Little insurance never hurts. Yeah, how about that? A little insurance up the middle. Served into center from Jeremiah Jackson. He’s driven in a run in three consecutive games. Mount Castle comes in to score and the Orioles have all five to Dylan Carlson. Carlson batting in that eight slot. Carlson the other way to left field in the corner. It is gone. He doked it inside the pole. Dylan Carlson goes the other way up under the Crawford boxes. The Orioles are in seventh heaven. They are smothering the Astros here as Carlson knocks a two-run home run out to left. What in the world is going through Brandon Young’s mind right now? He is perfect through seven innings. Walker strikes out swinging. A little fist pump from mom puts one in the air center field. Greg Allen just in the game collides with Johnson and the ball is caught and history continues. Perfect through seven and two/3. Brings up the former Orio Raone Ouras bats with two outs here in the eighth. A little ground ball. Young bare hand. Young throws it wide. The perfect game is no more. Ramon Urias in his first game against the team that traded him at the deadline. He is the one to break up the perfect game and the no hitter just like that. The baseball gods would not let immortality happen tonight. And now Taylor struck him out swinging. Eight scoreless innings for Brandon Young. Maybe the perfect game is gone, but it is a night he’ll never forget. Brandon Young, you can sit this ninth inning out. After eight one hit innings, he turns the game to Yarmal Heraldo. Haraldo making his seventh appearance of the year for the Orioles. Altuve flails. Heraldo ends the night. The night belonged to Brandon Young. It belongs to the Orioles rookie. His first big league win comes in front of his dad Carrie, his mom, Brandy, his family, his friends from Lumberton, Texas, an hour and a half down the road. And that embrace tells the story. [Music]

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