BALTIMORE, MD — Let’s set the scene. Two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto is one out away from throwing the first MLB no-hitter of the 2025 regular season, with only Orioles young star Jackson Holiday standing in his way. The two outs in the ninth inning — those would be the last two outs the Dodgers would get on a magical night in Maryland.

Jackson Holiday would take a 2-1 cutter over the right-center field wall for a solo home run, his seventeenth of the season.

With Yamamoto at 112 pitches on the night, Dave Roberts came to get his emotional ace, looking for his bullpen to get just one out. That’s not so hard, right? I mean with all the great improvements the Dodgers made this past offseason and at the trade deadline to make them a surefire super team, one out is the literal least amount of work you can ask from your pen. In fact, a lot of team need multiple outs, like nine or twelve from theirs with a two-run lead, and the Dodgers needed just one.

Dave Roberts called on Blake Treinen to get that out, and the O’s catcher Alex Jackson worked a seven pitch at-bat before doubling to center field. Then, Gunnar Henderson came to the plate representing the tying run and on a 1-2 pitch, was hit on the foot, putting the winning run at the plate, but it’s ok, all the Dodgers needed was just one out. Then, Treinen walked back-to-back batters, Mountcastle and Cowser, forcing home a run.

Once again, needing just one out, Dave Roberts went to his ‘closer’ Tanner Scott, who has struggled a lot this season, including surrendering a walk-off home run to young catcher Samuel Basallo just last night.

Tanner Scott came in with just one out to get, facing Emmanuel Rivera, and on a 1-1 fastball, Rivera would flick a ball into shallow center, scoring two runs and sending Oriole park into an absolute frenzy.

For the Dodgers, it represents absolute rock bottom. This was the first time in MLB History that a team lost a no-hitter with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and went on to lose, being up by three runs coming into the inning.

“There’s no words.” Reliever Blake Treinen told NBC LA postgame. “I cost us one of the better outings I’ve ever seen in my career with Yamamoto. He deserved better than that.”

“Blake had a bad night.” Manager Dave Roberts said “When you walk two guys and can’t put hitters away, it’s hard to call that being snakebit. You make your own breaks, and tonight he just wasn’t good. Very uncharacteristic.”

“He’s been our best reliever for quite some time. I wanted to give him some leash to secure the game, but once he threw that four-pitch walk, I felt like he didn’t have the confidence to continue.”

This game had an emotional touch to it for multiple reasons, and from multiple angles. For starters, today was the 30th anniversary of Cal Ripken braking Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games played with 2,131, featuring a pregame ceremony and lots of memories of the good ole days of Orioles baseball. The baseball world also learned earlier today that Ripken’s former manager and Orioles legend Davey Johnson passed away at the age of 82, giving the game that much more meaning.

When speaking on the emotions, Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino said “It’s Wild.” “I thought some of Cal’s [Ripken] magic resinated with us in the ninth inning”

It’s safe to say there was some Orioles Magic at Camden Yards tonight, as the Orioles will go for the three-game sweep of the Dodgers and the Dodgers will look to avoid an 0-6 road trip.