HOUSTON - When Baltimore Orioles rookie Brandon Young took the mound Friday night for the 11th time in his big league career, he was still waiting for his first MLB win.

Instead, he flirted with baseball immortality.

Young carried a perfect game bid into the eighth inning in the Orioles' 7-0 win over the Houston Astros, retiring the first 23 batters he faced to come just four outs away from doing something no pitcher in Orioles history ever has. But with two outs in the eighth inning, former Oriole Ramón Urías dribbled an infield single that Young threw away - ending both his bid for a perfect game and a no-hitter.

Young was chasing what would have been only the 25th perfect game in MLB history, and the first since New York Yankees right-hander Domingo Germán's on June 28, 2023. The mos

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