Orioles nearly no-hit again in 7-0 loss to Rangers, Jacob deGrom

Jacob Calvin Meyer, The Baltimore Sun on Jun 25, 2025

Published in Baseball

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BALTIMORE — The Orioles played a baseball game. They were nearly no-hit.

Recently, those two things have almost been one in the same.

For the third time in five games, the Orioles on Wednesday night were almost on the wrong side of baseball history in a 7-0 loss. Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom was perfect through six innings and carried a no-hit bid through seven frames against a lifeless Orioles offense.

Jackson Holliday’s leadoff walk in the seventh ended deGrom’s bid to twirl just the 25th perfect game in MLB history. With deGrom six outs away from the first no-hitter of the 2025 MLB season, Colton Cowser broke it up with a ground-ball single past diving second baseman Marcus Semien to lead off the eighth. After both instances, Baltimore fans at Camden Yards sarcastically cheered their team for avoiding embarrassment.

Then, as deGrom walked off the mound, those same fans sincerely applauded the four-time All-Star right-hander for his masterful effort.

The performance from Baltimore’s bats followed an even worse one Tuesday when they were no-hit through six innings by Rangers left-hander Jacob Latz, who was making the third start of his career. On Saturday in New York, the Orioles were no-hit through seven innings by Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt before journeyman reliever JT Brubaker lost it in the eighth. Ramón Laureano broke up the no-no Tuesday, while Gary Sánchez did the honors Saturday.

In Baltimore’s defense, deGrom did look unhittable. He was mixing his high-90s mph fastball and low-90s mph slider in flashy fashion, once again showing that he’s back to being the pitcher he was when he was a two-time National League Cy Young Award winner with the New York Mets before injuries derailed his career. The $185 million ace struck out seven in what was the longest no-hit bid of his career.

An MLB team has been one-hit 11 times this season. The Orioles account for three of those.

Josh Jung gave deGrom all the run support he would need with an RBI single in the second inning off Orioles starter Brandon Young, who was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk earlier in the day. Jung then put the Rangers up 3-0 with a two-run blast in the fourth.

As deGrom (8-2, 2.08 ERA) cruised, his offense exploded against Scott Blewett, who relieved Young (0-2, 7.11 ERA) in the fifth. All-Stars Corey Seager and Semien both smacked RBI singles against Blewett, and Adolis García put Texas (40-41) up 6-0 with a sacrifice fly. Catcher Jonah Heim, a 2013 draftee by the Orioles, then blasted a solo homer off Blewett in the sixth.

Baltimore is 34-46 and hasn’t won a series since sweeping the Los Angeles Angels two weekends ago.