Yoshinobu Yamamoto go to within one out of a no-hitter on Saturday night in Baltimore, and walked off the mound with a two-run lead and nobody on base in the ninth inning. That final out never came, as Blake Treinen and Tanner Scott put the finishing touches on a stunning Dodgers loss to the Orioles in what has to be the low point of the season. So far.

Yamamoto hasn’t gotten a ton of support during his starts this season, but usually that comes in the form of poor Dodgers offense, as they’ve scored three runs or fewer in 14 of his 27 starts. Saturday night was one of them, their fourth straight game scoring three or fewer runs and sixth such game in the last eight.

Yamamoto has six different starts this season of at least six innings with no more than one run allowed in which he didn’t

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