{"id":255750,"date":"2025-08-18T07:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/255750\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:18:18","slug":"orioles-right-hander-young-loses-bid-for-perfect-game-in-8th-inning-in-7-0-win-over-the-astros-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/255750\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles right-hander Young loses bid for perfect game in 8th inning in 7-0 win over the Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \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 Houston Astros.<\/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 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 (11-6) kept the Orioles in check until the fourth when Colby Mayo hit a two-out, solo home run.<\/p>\n

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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

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

Valdez allowed four runs, three earned, on nine hits over 6 2\/3 innings as the Astros\u2019 lead over Seattle in the AL West slipped to a half-game.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Urias\u2019 infield single with two outs in the eighth inning to break up Young\u2019s bid for a perfect game.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

John Means threw the Orioles last no-hitter on May 5, 2021.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

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 (AP) \u2014 Baltimore rookie right-hander Brandon Young lost his bid for the first perfect game in Orioles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,47,5,796,590,79,916,139,54,3211,11838,367,4771,1212,4,256,40983,185,10037,1567,5099,5355],"class_list":{"0":"post-255750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brandon-young","12":"tag-dylan-carlson","13":"tag-framber-valdez","14":"tag-gunnar-henderson","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-astros","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-jason-alexander","19":"tag-john-means","20":"tag-maryland","21":"tag-md-state-wire","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mlb-baseball","24":"tag-ramon-uras","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-sports-retirements","27":"tag-texas","28":"tag-tx-state-wire","29":"tag-yainer-diaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115048553880051878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}