Dodgers lose after Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning, a breakdown
What Happened
Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Baltimore Orioles is on the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning, attempting to complete the first no-hitter of the 2025 MLB season. The Orioles hold a slim 1-0 lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yamamoto has been dominant, retiring 24 batters in a row and showcasing his arsenal of nasty pitches - a slider, fastball, and splitter that all move in different directions. With two outs in the ninth, Yamamoto is one out away from history. The crowd at Dodger Stadium is on its feet, cheering for the Japanese pitcher to finish off the no-no. Yamamoto comes set and fires a first-pitch slider to pinch-hitter Jason Holiday of the Dodgers. Holiday is able to get the barrel on the ball and sends a towering fly ball over the wall for a game-tying home run, shattering Yamamoto's no-hit bid. The Dodger Stadium crowd erupts in applause, recognizing the greatness they've witnessed, even though their team has just tied the game. Orioles manager Brandon Hyde comes to the mound and has a brief conversation with the dejected Yamamoto before removing him from the game to a standing ovation. With the game now tied 1-1, the Orioles turn to their bullpen. Reliever Tanner Scott enters and immediately finds himself in trouble, walking the first batter he faces to load the bases. Scott is able to record a strikeout, but then hits the next batter to force in the go-ahead run for the Dodgers. Down 2-1 with the bases still loaded, Scott faces a crucial at-bat. He falls behind 3-1 in the count, but battles back to even it at 3-2. On the full-count pitch, Scott induces a soft fly ball to center field. Orioles center fielder Cedric Mullins makes the catch, but the tying run scores from third, making it a 3-2 Dodgers lead. With the game slipping away, the Orioles refuse to quit. They rally in the top of the 10th inning, scoring two runs to retake the lead at 4-3. Closer Felix Bautista shuts the door in the bottom half, and the Orioles pull off the improbable comeback victory, dashing Yamamoto's no-hit bid but securing a huge win for their playoff push.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentYamamoto taking the mound in the ninth inning. He is not allowed to hit. He's trying to get the
first no-hitter of the 2025 season. He's trying to get his third professional no-hitter, but his
first in Major League Baseball. Lock in Yamamoto. That is right. You're three outs away. This
breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. He's thrown two no-hitters, but not in Major League
Baseball. Two Japanese pitchers have thrown no-hitters. Both of those pitchers did it against
the Orioles. So will the Orioles fall victim to a third no-hitter from the hand of a Japanese
starting pitcher? Yamamoto has been dicing people up. 104 pitches. He has retired 24 batters in a
row at this point. He walked three in the first inning, and now he is here warming up, getting
ready, three outs away. And in this first at-battle, he's going to be the first to hit the
bat of the ninth inning. You're going to see why he was so nasty. He opens him up with a little
slider, cutter, whatever he calls it. It breaks down and away from the batter. And then off of
that, he says, how about the one that keeps going up and is fast? That's fun. And then he says,
okay, well now, wait, what's my other pitch? Huh? What else do I have off of this? What do I throw
now? Um, uh, oh yeah, the splitter, because that one goes down and towards the right-hand
batter. So we've got three pitches doing three different things. That is disgusting. And he says,
yeah, I can't believe I forgot about the splitter for a second. That's my best pitch. Look at this.
Here's the grip split between the two fingers, and it's just going to tail to the right and drop.
It's still in the nineties. Here is the fastball and the slider. The first two pitches overlaid
and bam, you can see one goes down and away.
One goes up. And now here is the fastball and the splitter overlaid. Oh my God. No way. And now
here is the breaking ball and the splitter overlaid. And this looks like a nightmare.
Jimmy, how about we see him all at once and color-coded? So it's easier to follow. There you
go. That is unbelievable. If you can locate all of those and throw all of those, you're going to
get a chance to know, hit a team two outs away and a curve ball.
Now he's thrown all four pitches. He's gotten two outs. First pitch, slow breaking ball gets
underneath it. One out away. They're high-fiving. One away. One away. He says, okay, no pressure.
Let's do this. We got a lefty coming up. So a little bit different arsenal. And he says,
you know what? Let's go heater. Because if I land that, oh man, that's dead center. But
he can work off of that now because it was not put in play. Oh, one, he goes to the split.
Great leave by Holiday.
And then tries to dot an outside fastball. And now I think he wants to establish the inside.
He wants to bring it back in, maybe cut it a little bit. And oh, I think he wanted that more
inside. Holiday gets the barrel to it, puts it over the wall. They don't know. Is it a double?
Is it a home run? Dunbar says, keep running, young stud. Look at this nice piece of hitting
from Holiday who watches it. And Yamamoto watches it as well. But it's not as fun for him.
Because he just lost his no hitter with one out to go. And they put up a run in the process. Huh?
Ah, not fun. They say, hey, let's take him out. Because things tend to unravel sometimes when a
guy loses. And Roberts says, hey, listen to this crowd. Both sides are rooting for you. They've
been cheering for you. You won over the away team. That's amazing. Go pay him some respect.
Everyone is standing. Orange, blue, doesn't matter. You're on your feet. You're clapping
because that's baseball greatness they just got to witness.
There's still a game to be played, though. Next batterer, one out away. First pitch,
two seam, gets the call. And then off of that, a slider gets the check swing. Oh, my goodness.
Is that witchcraft? I think so. I think so. It seems illegal to me. And then, did he go?
I think some umpires will call him out on that. And it would be game over. Maybe not. But you
never know. You never know. He looks like he checked it. I think he checked it. But I think
it could be strike three. How about this breaking ball? Is that good? Oh. 2-2 pitch is fouled down.
And then the next 2-2 taken for ball three. Full count. He's going to try and locate this
and take a little bit of the movement off. So he goes with the two seam, the sinker. It doesn't
drop that much. It gets banged into the sky. Almost a home run. Instead, it's a double.
We got a runner in scoring position. The sprinklers are on. We're getting
wet. We're cheering. Let's go, O's. Let's go. Let's go, O's. We're doing the damn thing. Are
they doing it? I really don't want them to do it. Kind of ruins everything I did. No, it doesn't.
Anyway, first base is open. We got ball one. Not good. Where do we go? We got strike one. That's
good. Okay. How about this? Fouled back. Two strikes. A strike away from ending the game again.
Oh, fastball in the zone. Fouled back. Goes with the slider. Hits him on the tongue.
Of his shoe. Hit by pitch into the dirt off of the tongue of his shoe. Look at that thing just
flapping. Just yapping its mouth. The tongue going crazy. I can't believe this. Are you serious? I'm
happy. I'm very happy. Yeah, it hit me right there. Yep. Okay. Come on, though. All right.
Strike one. We got a swing. Strike two. No. Ball one. Did not chase that one. Did not chase that
one. And it gets away. Both runners.
We're really doing it. Let's go O's. Come on. Let's go O's. Roger those Dodgers. Roger those
Dodgers. What's Roger those Dodgers mean? With a D? Your search does not match any documents. Roger
those Dodgers. Okay. Roger the Dodger is a cartoon character. There's a Rogers, but he doesn't have
the D in it. What does Roger those Dodgers mean? Please help. They're doing it, though. It's a 3-1
run. That is ball four. Oh, no. Now we're in the thick of it. We got to run around third. We got to
run around second. We got to run around first. The bases are juiced. First pitch. Ball low. Second
pitch. Ball outside. 2-0 count. Uh-oh. I told you, buddy. We're Roger-ing them. We're Roger-ing
their asses. Dad, don't know what that means. Next pitch. Ball three. 3-1. Ball four. The second
run comes in. It's a one-run game, and the tying run is on third. Go ahead on second. They take
him out. He says,
uh, thanks, God. Even in my losses, I appreciate you. Next pitcher coming in. This guy's like,
oh, what is going on? Did my rally cap work? Is it my hat that's doing this? Bases loaded. First
pitch below the zone, but hittable. Third pitch. Same thing. Below the zone. Very hittable. Puts
it into center field. We got a janitor throw. It's coming. It's coming. It's over their head.
It's game over. It's the Orioles. They're playing spoiler on the season. They're playing spoiler
for no hitters.
Fifth loss in a row after that pitching performance from Yamamoto, but look at this. Tanner Scott
catches it, tosses himself behind the back, rolls it into the celebration. Someone going to roll
their ankle into the stampede? No. Stops smoothly. The helmet gets tossed. We're celebrating at
second base. Orioles been putting together a second half. They're just winning games,
having fun. The crowd was packed because it was the anniversary of Cal Ripken,
so the environment was awesome. We got two dueling water coolers about to come out.
They're trying to win. They're trying to win. They're trying to win. They're trying to win.
They're trying to rip his shirt off. He's fighting that pretty well. They give up on the
shirt. Here, almost drops one cooler. The next one, that's pretty good. Gets his top half, and
now we got the back half. You're soaked. You're celebrating. You're having fun. The Dodgers are
not having fun, but for eight innings and two outs, they had a blast. Thank you to DraftKings
for sponsoring this one, and thank you to you guys for watching baseball. First time
ever, a team had a no-hitter through eight and two-thirds, lost the no-hitter,
then went on to lose the game. Unbelievable.