Yoshinobu Yamamoto turned in a near no-hitter and the Los Angeles Dodgers took a lead for the first time on their road trip but it was all for nothing as the Baltimore Orioles came away with a 4-3 walk-off win.

The Dodgers now are on a five-game losing streak and the Orioles have rattled off five victories in a row.

Yamamoto didn’t allow a hit until Jackson Holliday connected on a solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. Yamamoto became the first Dodgers pitcher to lose a no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth inning since Dazzy Vance on June 17, 1923, when the franchise was known as the Brooklyn Robins.

The Orioles’ only baserunners before Holliday prevented history were back-to-back walks with nobody out in the third inning. Yamamoto escaped that traffic behind a strikeout and double play.

When Yamamoto completed seven no-hit innings, he became the first Dodgers pitcher to do so since Clayton Kershaw on July 15, 2022. Kershaw wound up allowing one hit over eight shutout innings against the Los Angeles Angeles that night.

Disaster nearly struck in the eighth inning as Alex Call and Andy Pages came close to colliding while both were in pursuit of a relatively routine fly ball to the gap.

Yamamoto’s dominant performance came on the night the Orioles celebrated the 30th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr. playing 2,131 consecutive games.

Yamamoto threw 112 pitches, his most as a Major League pitcher. He walked off the field to a standing ovation.

Blake Treinen allowed a double, hit a batter, threw a wild pitch and issued a walk to load the bases. Treinen then walked a runner in and was removed from the game after failing to record the final out.

Tanner Scott wasn’t able to bounce back from allowing a walk-off home run Friday night as Emmanuel Rivera lined a two-run base hit into center field to give the Orioles a stunning win.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto near no-hitter

The only no-hitter ever thrown at Camden Yards remains by Hideo Nomo as a member of the Boston Red Sox in 2001.

Yamamoto was one out away from completing the 24th no-hitter in Dodgers franchise history. It would have been team’s first since Walker Buehler led a combined no-hitter during the Mexico Series in 2018.

Yamamoto threw two no-hitters in Japan, once each in 2022 and 2023.

Dodgers manufacture offense

Miguel Rojas continued to build on what’s been an impressive stretch by hitting a leadoff double in the third inning, which was followed by Kiké Hernández drawing a walk. After Ben Rortvedt’s first of two sacrifice bunts on the night advanced both runners, Shohei Ohtani provided the Dodgers with a lead on his RBI groundout.

Rojas’ second leadoff double of the game was also cashed in, but not without some luck, as Jackson Holliday wasn’t able to catch a line drive hit by Mookie Betts with two outs in the fifth inning.

Betts’ second RBI came on a fly ball to left field that went for a triple in the seventh inning as Dylan Beavers came up empty on his attempt at a diving catch.

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