BALTIMORE (AP) — There's something about Sept. 6 at Camden Yards.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto came within an out of a no-hitter, only to allow a home run to Baltimore's Jackson Holliday. Then the Orioles turned that solo shot into the start of a four-run rally in the bottom of the ninth, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 on Saturday night.
The Dodgers have lost five straight, wasting a chance to pull away in the NL West from second-place San Diego, which is also slumping.
“It’s hard to recount a game like this where there’s so many things you feel like you can get a little bit of momentum, build off a great outing by Yoshinobu and take that into tomorrow,” Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said. “And obviously it completely flipped.”
It was unquestionably the win of the year for the last-place